Australia and the Philippines signed a defence agreement on Sunday to make joint patrols, military exercises and disaster relief operations easier to organise, Philippine officials said. Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr and Australian Ambassador Marc Innes-Brown signed the agreement in Manila, with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attending the ceremony during his visit for regional summits. The Defence Cooperation Arrangement updates a 1995 agreement. It builds on a separate visiting forces agreement, in force since 2012, which already allows troops from each country to train on the other’s territory. Teodoro said the new arrangement would simplify the procedures for carrying out joint activities.
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