Prime Minister Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips calls for stronger security cooperation among defence leaders across the Americas during the XVII Conference of Defence Ministers of the Americas (CMDA/CDMA). In his address, he argues that countries in the region should move toward a more unified approach to handling emerging security threats, saying that fragmented responses are no longer sufficient to protect the hemisphere. Both outlets report that Phillips frames the issue as one requiring deeper collective coordination, including closer collaboration among defence establishments across the region. He presents the conference as a forum for aligning priorities and developing shared ways to respond to evolving challenges facing the Americas. The reports emphasize that the focus is on strengthening regional security through cooperation rather than working in isolation, and on adopting coordinated strategies that can address new and changing threats more effectively.