Staff Correspondent || Bangladesh Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman held separate bilateral meetings with senior military officials from Australia and the United States while attending the Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition and Chief of Army Symposium 2026 in Perth, Australia.On Monday, the army chief met Australian Army Chief Lieutenant General Susan Coyle and Lieutenant General Joel B Vowell, Deputy Commanding General of the United States Army Pacific (USARPAC), separately.The Bangladesh Army shared the information on its verified Facebook page on Tuesday.During the meeting with Lieutenant General Susan Coyle, the two sides discussed mutual military cooperation, training, capacity building and welfare-related activities.In his meeting with Lieutenant General Joel B Vowell, General Waker-Uz-Zaman discussed expanding cooperation and information sharing between the armed forces of Bangladesh and the United States.The discussions also covered plans to organise a Disaster Response Exercise and Exchange (DREE) to strengthen preparedness for disaster response.The two sides also discussed launching training courses at the Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operation Training (BIPSOT) with funding from the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI).Increasing the participation of US trainees at Bangladesh's National Defence College (NDC) and Defence Services Command and Staff College (DSCSC) was also discussed during the meetings.