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May 19, 2021
Release

Secretary Austin Co-Chairs 4th North American Defense Ministerial Meeting

On May 19, 2021, Secretary Austin co-chaired the fourth North American Defense Ministerial (NADM) meeting hosted by Canadian Minister of National Defence (MND) Harjit Sajjan, and with his Mexican co-chairs Secretary of National Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval Gonzalez, and Secretary of the Navy Admiral Jose Rafael Ojeda Duran. The NADM is the defense component of North American regional cooperation efforts.

The NADM was established in 2012 to provide a framework to facilitate cooperation and coordination among North America's defense institutions to build a common understanding of mutual challenges and approaches to address these challenges, and to identify and implement initiatives to promote trilateral defense cooperation. The Secretaries and Minister noted the increasing relevancy and institutionalization of the trilateral defense framework, especially in light of the challenges presented by COVID 19. Mexico will host the next NADM in 2023.

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