Southeast Asian defense chiefs are due to come up with a unified stance on the dragging South China Sea dispute during next month's Association of Southeast Asian Defense Ministers Meeting, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana yesterday said. Lorenzana said other issues are going to be discussed in the meeting to be held on October 23 and 24 at Clarkfield in Pampanga, including counter-terrorism, climate mitigation, and the drug problem. "It will be a huge conference. W will be talking about common interests, number one of course is terrorism, number two is drugs, and of course- because we are in an area where we suffer a lot of calamities - disaster management," said Lorenzana.

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