Since a security pact signed in 2007, Australia and Japan have been quietly strengthening military ties.
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EAC, he suggested, should build a free-trade area, co-operate on finance, and sign a security pact.
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Lawmakers loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and others had been staunch opponents of the security pact.
The national security pact was signed by prosecutors and leaders from across the political and regional spectrum.
Meanwhile, bickering lawmakers Thursday again failed to carry out the second reading of the proposed U.S.-Iraq security pact.
The two congratulated the lawmakers and said they look forward to the security pact's ratification by the presidency council.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Japan-U.S. Security Pact.
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Ray Odierno, the top U.S. military official in Iraq, issued a statement welcoming the passage of the security pact and the strategic framework agreement -- which covers a wide range of bilateral cooperation efforts.
The latest deaths occurred on the eve of a parliamentary vote on a proposed security pact between the United States and Iraq that sets out the role of U.S. and allied troops in Iraq.
Though Kazakhstan takes part in a customs union with Russia and is a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a security pact that includes both Russia and China, its largest trade partner is the European Union.
Although there apparently were enough votes to approve the security pact even without the compromise, al-Maliki's government, as well as Shiite and Kurdish leaders, wanted to work out the political reform deal with the Sunni Arabs so there could be national unity on the security pact.
The first readings of the security deal and another U.S.-Iraqi bilateral pact -- the strategic framework agreement -- were held in parliament Monday.
Ignoring the fact that the pact paves the way for Hamas's integration into the PA's US-trained security forces, and its membership in the PLO, Raviv vapidly claimed that the villain in all of the recent developments is none other than Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is destroying all chance of peace by pointing out that the Palestinians have opted for war.
On 30 September, President Yeltsin reportedly sent a letter to France, Germany, Britain and the United States warning against the admission of any former Warsaw Pact countries into NATO under present circumstances and proposing instead a joint guarantee of Eastern Europe's security.
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