'2 Years Canceled' Shangri-La Dialogue to Be Held in June Next Year

[Asia Economy Reporter Cho Hyun-ui] The Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's security conference that was canceled for two consecutive years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held in Singapore next June.

According to Singapore's daily The Straits Times on the 14th, James Crabtree of the Asia branch of the UK-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the organizer of the Shangri-La Dialogue, stated the day before, "Interest in Asian security issues is increasing," confirming this.

The event will take place from June 10 to 12 next year.

The Shangri-La Dialogue is an event where the security chiefs of major countries in the Asia-Pacific region gather, and it has been held annually in Singapore since 2002 under the auspices of the IISS.

However, it was not held for two consecutive years starting last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, it was scheduled for June 4-5, but as the global COVID-19 situation worsened again, the event was canceled about two weeks before it was to take place.

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