Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh opens the South Asia Peacekeeping Operations Gaming Seminar in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Lt. Gen. Mustafizur Rahman, Chief of Staff of the Bangladesh Army, and Maj. Gen. Curtis Loop, Deputy Commanding General for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs, U.S. Army Pacific, representing the co-hosting nations, flank the prime minister.

Participants from Sri Lanka, L to R: Brig. Gen. Dulsiriudeni Munasinghe, Maj. Gen. P. S. B. Kulatunge, and Mr. Ahmed Aful Jawad, Director of the UN Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Display of Bangladesh Army PKO equipment at the PKO Training Center.

Lt. Gen. Mustafizur Rahman presents a seminar certificate to Mr. Vinod Fonia, Director (UNP), Ministry of External Affairs, India, at closing ceremonies. U.S. Maj. Gen. Curtis Loop looks on.

Lt. Gen. Mustafizur Rahman at the opening ceremony of the peacekeeping operations (PKO) seminar.

Commandant of the Bangladesh PKO Training Center, describes the mob control lane (simulated in the background) to U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Curtis Loop and Bangladesh Army Maj. Gen. Harun-ar-Rashid, Chief of General Staff. In the center: Cmdr. Razali bin Md. Ali, Royal Malaysian Navy.

Members of a Bangladesh Army band entertain delegates to the seminar.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina poses with senior Bangledeshi officers, the co-hosting officers from Bangladesh and the U.S., and the attending delegations from 17 countries.

Commodore Higinio C. Mendoza Jr., Commander of the 4th District, Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary (PCGA) and co-author, signs the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the 14th District, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary (USCGA) during the 16th PCGA Convention in the Philippines. Witnessing the signing are Lt. Cmdr. Robert Elston, PCGA and Rear Adm. Euceo Fajardo, Commandant, Philippine Coast Guard.

The reenactment of the signing of the MOA by Commodores Mendoza and Berger at the USCGA national conference in Kansas City, Missouri is witnessed by Philippine and U.S. Coast Guard officers.

Philippine contingent at the USCGA national conference, L to R: Lt. Cmdr. Florentina Labanda, Cmdr. Felix Labanda, Capt. Serafin C. David, Commodore Higinio C. Mendoza Jr., Commodore Casimiro Juarez and Dr. Fe R. Juarez.

L to R: Capt. Serafin C. David, PCGA; Commodore Burkhard L. Berger, USCGA (Co-signer of the MOA); Commodore Higinio C. Mendoza Jr., PCGA; and Cmdr. Felix Labanda during the USCGA conference