中評社新加坡6月3日電（記者 臧涵）第十六屆香格里拉對話會2日晚在新加坡開幕，IISS執行總裁John Chipman首先致詞，其發言全文（英文）如下：
Welcome to the 16th Asia Security Summit, the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue. We are delighted to have again assembled such a large gathering of ministers, military chiefs, intelligence heads, national security professionals, as well as defence industry leaders and independent strategists to advance defence diplomacy.
At this Shangri-La Dialogue, we already know, more bilateral, minilateral and multilateral meetings, in more diverse forms, are scheduled than ever before.
At the outset, I should like to thank the owners and management of the Shangri-La Hotel Group for generously sponsoring this Opening Dinner, our Lead Sponsors, Airbus Group, BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, for their support, and the government of Singapore for the assistance that permits us independently to organize the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue process, a responsibility we take very seriously.
I say ‘process’, rather than summit, because though this is a 3 day event, it is a 365 day a year effort. The IISS is in regular and constant touch with all the participating countries, speaking directly to ministers, officials, military officers, speech writers, analysts and others to shape the agenda and to ensure that each and every government is as content as possible with the shape of the Dialogue and their specific role within it. We thank all of you for the communications we have had with you and for the efforts that you have made to be here, to lead the discussions, meet each other and strengthen your relationships.
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