The defense minister was Christian in a regime dominated by Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also addressed the defense minister's warning of a collapse.
It is the prerogative of the defense minister to select the chief of general staff.
The foreign minister is Mohammed Kamel Amr and the defense minister is Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi.
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The defense minister denied reports that the army used live ammunition on the protesters, state-run media said.
The defense minister resigned after the 2010 attacks for what was considered to be a slow and weak response.
The defense minister, Admiral Diego Molero, appeared on television to say the military would remain loyal to the constitution.
After the devastating bomb that killed the defense minister and others on July 18, replacements were announced within hours.
Reason: Three days earlier Bhagwat had issued a sworn legal statement accusing the defense minister himself of being a high security risk.
The defense minister added that there was no connection between the operation in Somalia and a simultaneous deployment of French troops to Mali.
The defense minister's support of dissidents in Myanmar is a cause of considerable embarrassment to the government, especially given that it seeks to improve ties with Yangon.
And of course, without effective security forces, the prime minister and the interior minister as well as the defense minister will not have instruments to control the security.
Last year the defense minister threatened to shut Zambian Watchdog.
That's a fact testified to not just by the President and representatives of his, but by the Defense Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, and others in the Israeli government.
It was the foreign minister -- rather the defense minister who expressed condolences and apologized to Secretary Panetta for the specific incident involving the two officers at the Interior Ministry.
The defense minister, however, was criticized by lawmakers over a North Korean defector who stole a South Korean fishing boat Wednesday night and fled back to North Korea across the western sea border.
While the Japan Coast Guard is responsible for protecting Japan's coastlines, the defense minister can order the Self-Defense Forces to be deployed for maritime security operations if the situation is considered beyond the coast guard's capabilities.
Maduro also claimed the allegiance of Venezuela's army, calling it "the armed forces of Chavez" as he pumped his fist in the air, a gesture that was reciprocated by the defense minister watching from the gallery.
But I'm not going to get into discussions that the President will have and does have with the Prime Minister, that the Defense Secretary has with the Defense Minister, Foreign Minister with the Secretary of State.
While the Japan Coast Guard is responsible for protecting Japan's coastlines, the defense minister can order the Self Defense Forces to be deployed for maritime security operations if the situation is considered beyond the coast guard's capabilities.
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She met earlier with the defense minister, Ehud Barak, and then she met with Tzipi Livni, and she did again appeal for the need to ease up on check points and restrictions for Palestinians in the West Bank.
They will build on the work that Secretary of Defense Panetta is doing today in Bangkok with the Defense Minister on modernizing our security alliance and developing our military cooperation, which include exercises in disaster relief and counter piracy.
It's a commitment that's demonstrated by the unprecedented level of military-to-military and intelligence-to-intelligence service cooperation that we've established with Israel, a fact that has been testified to not just by Obama administration officials but by Israeli government officials, including the Prime Minister and the Defense Minister.
The French defense minister has acknowledged that the militants are a determined adversary that is well equipped.
The security situation in Iraq was supposed to be the subject of a parliamentary session Monday attended by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who is also the military's commander-in-chief, along with the acting minister of defense, the acting minister of interior, the commander of Baghdad operation command and the head of Iraqi intelligence services.
Analyst Gerald Steinberg says this crisis may bring down the current defense minister, Amir Peretz, a rising star in the Labor Party who was given the defense post despite a lack of experience.
The Japanese defense minister even posed for pictures in the cockpit of a Su-27 jetfighter -- the very aircraft the Russians have been selling China.
But the Sudanese defense minister and his delegation left Ethiopia and Amum said he received word about the Unity state attacks Wednesday afternoon.
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The French Defense Minister, Jean Yves Le Drian, says that "hundreds" of militants have been killed over the last month.
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