closer military cooperation

He also indicated that he favored closer military cooperation with Washington.

Agreement signed on closer military cooperation with Russia.

At the same time, Washington has signed the agreement with the Yemeni authorities on closer military cooperation.

But some in Congress are pressing for even closer military cooperation, like the transfer of excess Pentagon equipment.

Uzbekistan and Russia signed a mutual defence pact in 2005, that will also result in closer military cooperation.

Israel had aimed for some time at the creation of a more formal bond which would commit the United States to a closer military cooperation.

The partnership programs offer former Warsaw Pact countries closer military cooperation with the alliance but stop short of giving them full membership.

Under the scheme, former Warsaw Pact states will be offered closer military cooperation with the western alliance, but it falls short of full membership.

The Eurocorps is designed to "serve as a model for closer military cooperation in general between EU member-states."

Some critics of the bases are worried that the United States has made a clever decision to give up territory in exchange for closer military cooperation with Japan.

In addition, the two countries signed several specific agreements including ones that deal with aging nuclear power plants, the establishment of a London-Moscow hot line and closer military cooperation.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has offered closer military cooperation with former Warsaw Pact states, while stopping short of offering full membership.

The Western diplomatic officials said the rejections had increased Greece and Bulgaria's suspicions of Turkish intentions, and have accelerated their plans for closer military cooperation.

On July 22, Mr. Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic, the Bosnian President, met in Croatia to discuss closer military cooperation.

The first test of this concept is the meeting scheduled for April 29, when Germany and France, along with Belgium and Luxembourg, are to discuss closer military cooperation.

In September 2005, Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan and Italian Deputy Defense Minister Salvatore Cicu expressed their hope for closer military cooperation between the two countries.

Rebel Serbs in Bosnia and Croatia have announced plans for closer military cooperation, as have the Government forces in the two countries, while the United Nations mission in Bosnia is coming under ever greater pressure.

But the meeting, coupled with President Bush's recent agreement to supply nuclear aid to India, has also underscored concerns in Australia that the United States is trying to forge closer military cooperation with countries surrounding China.

At a meeting of European defense ministers in Ghent in November 2010 Guttenberg called for closer military cooperation among EU member states, especially in the areas of procurement and training, to cope with rising budgetary pressures.

Closer military cooperation remains a distant dream, as Germany cuts back on defense spending and France, under Mr. Chirac, boosts it, though for projects like a new nuclear aircraft carrier to project French power, rather than for the joint units closer cooperation would require.

France, spelling out details of its plan to return to closer military cooperation with NATO after 30 years at arm's length, said today that it was willing to discuss the role its independent nuclear deterrent could play as part of a strengthened European pillar within the alliance.

Politicians in Continental Europe also had a bleak view of the deal, which runs counter to the avowed intention of British and other European leaders to foster closer military cooperation based on joint weapons procurement as military budgets are pared back in the post-cold war world.

The NATO partnership programme, which offers former Warsaw Pact countries closer military cooperation but stops short of giving them full alliance membership, was "very abstract and provisional" and "not altogether sufficient" for Russia's needs, said Kozyrev, cited by the Interfax news agency.