MH370 Malaysia's defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein said today that the Five Power Defence Arrangement (FPDA)’s renewed commitment to find the missing MH370 should help dispel rumours that there was any military conspiracy involved.

Defence ministers from Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and Singapore met with Hishammuddin in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend.

They voiced support for a new search phase for MH370 and agreed to form four committees - for the welfare of the MH370 families, assets deployment, experts panel and bilateral co-operation between Malaysia, China and Australia.

"The search for MH370 had received help from various countries and such efforts will be continued until the aircraft is found. 

"The ministers at the meeting expressed their sadness and sympathy to the families of the passengers and crew of MH370," Hishammuddin was reported as saying by Utusan Malaysia .

Dating back to 1971, the five states had agreed to consult each other in the event of external aggression or threat of attack against peninsular Malaysia or Singapore.

The defence co-operation was to make up for the withdrawal of British forces east of Suez in 1967 after Malaysia's independence.

Ministers who attended the meeting in KL included Australia's David Johnston ( left ), New Zealand's Jonathan Coleman, UK's Philip Hammond and Singapore's Ng Eng Hen.

Last week, for the first time since the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 plane went missing on March 8, no one was earnestly looking for it.

Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) and British satellite firm Inmarsat had released the last communication data from MH370 to let others attempt to verify how they concluded that the flight ended in the south Indian Ocean.

But a nearly two-month long Australia-led effort to search the area had yielded no concrete proof or any debris from the flight with 239 passengers onboard.

Last week, Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said it was taking a break to re-calibrate and some two months may be needed to acquire private assets necessary for the next search phase.

Meanwhile, controversy and conspiracy theories abound, including the release of the first book in English on the tragedy. It alleged that the plane had been accidentally shot down in a military exercise in the South China Sea.