37th Asia Pacific Roundtable (APR) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

President BIPSS Major General A N M Muniruzzaman, ndc, psc (Retd) and Mr Shafqat Munir, Senior Research Fellow BIPSS & Head of BCTR, attended the 37th Asia Pacific Roundtable (APR) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. General Muniruzzaman also spoke on the panel titled “Reframing the global climate discourse “. In his deliberation, he particularly stressed on the wide-ranging security implications of climate change and the urgent need to build international response mechanisms to cope with the threat.

The APR is one of the oldest and largest security conferences in Asia. This year, the conference was addressed by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, the Foreign Minister of Malaysia, the Secretary General of ASEAN, and many other international dignitaries. Delegates to the conference included diplomats, academics, editors, think tank policy community, senior govt officials and others.