May 20, 2021
published at 9:14 AMReuters A Gurkha police officer stands guard outside the venue of the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, on May 31, 2019.
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SINGAPORE - The Shangri-La Dialogue Asian security summit that was due to be held in Singapore next month has been cancelled, the organisers said on Thursday (May 20), citing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, including on the host country.
This year’s event, which is arranged by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), had been scheduled to take place from June 4 – 5.
The event has typically attracted top level military officials, diplomats and weapons makers from around the globe since its launch in 2002.
Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore cancelled amid COVID-19
ANI
20 May 2021, 22:18 GMT+10
Singapore City [Singapore], May 20 (ANI): The Shangri-La Dialogue that was scheduled to be held next month in Singapore has been cancelled amid the COVID-19 surge.
A spokesman for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said it was with regret and sadness that the security summit had to be called off, Straits Times reported.
The Asian security summit dialogue scheduled for June 4-5 was supposed to be a fully in-person event held within a bubble at Shangri-La Hotel. United States Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin had confirmed his attendance, while Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga had been invited to headline the event as keynote speaker.
An upcoming annual meeting of Defence Ministers and security officials in Singapore has been cancelled for the second year in a row due to "uncertainty" over the Covid-19 pandemic, organisers said on Thursday.The International .
Open government assessments of the state of India-Pakistan deterrence are rare. A recent US intelligence overview considered a ‘general war’ between the two countries.
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