The Commander of the Air Force, Air Marshal Sumangala Dias participated for a video-tele conference organized by the Pacific Air Forces today (30 April 2020) at Air Force Headquarters. The conference was organized by the Pacific Air Forces under the leadership of General Charles Q. Brown Jr, the Commander of the Pacific Air Forces.

The aim of the conference was to collectively engage these challenging and unprecedented times in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference also enabled the Air Chiefs to discuss best practices and to identify ways of effective collaboration within the Indo-Pacific region in facing the COVID-19 pandemic effectively and efficiently.

Air Chiefs from Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Chile, France, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand also participated for the conference.