Singapore's Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen gives the opening address at the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting in Singapore October 19, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Su
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Several countries including the United States and China agreed "in principle" on Saturday to multilateral guidelines to manage unexpected encounters between their military aircraft, joining 10 Southeast Asian nations already in the pact.
The world's two biggest economies as well as Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, South Korea tentatively joined the agreement, which was initially adopted on Friday by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), according to a joint statement issued after a meeting of defence ministers from the 18 countries in Singapore.
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