The two leaders signed a document committing both nations to improving strategic security of nuclear weapons.
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Aside from the fact that it is limited, no president is going to squander all the reserve for short-term price pressure, since it was built for serious strategic security purposes.
Our two sides will continue to work together to strengthen and enhance our dialogue mechanisms, including the strategic and economic dialogues, the strategic security dialogue, and the high-level consultation on people-to-people exchange.
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The comments come ahead of the publication of the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), due in October.
The government announced last December that four frigates were to be decommissioned under the strategic defence and security review.
The Army's 5th Division is among three regional headquarters closing to save money under the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
Under the Strategic Defence and Security Review, the Army is to cut up to 12, 000 personnel from 102, 000 by 2015.
The MoD has said the "capability" of the RAF's Sentinel will be reviewed in 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review.
This is taking place under the continuing Strategic Defence and Security Review, which is due to be published later this year.
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Much of the impact of the cuts announced in the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review is still to make itself felt.
Nearly a year ago, the headquarters of the Army's 5th Division moved out of Copthorne, following the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
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About 17, 000 armed forces jobs are scheduled to go under the terms of the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), announced in 2010.
Last year's strategic defence and security review (SDSR) said Army numbers were to be reduced by 7, 000, and the Royal Navy and RAF by 5, 000 each.
The government's 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) introduced an 8% cut in defence funding and reductions of 30, 000 personnel across the armed forces.
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One of the first actions of the current government was to set up a full-scale strategic defence and security review, the first since 1998 (see article).
But the coalition announced in the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review that it favoured the F-35C version, which has a longer range and can carry more weapons.
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As a result of the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) in December 2010, Dr Liam Fox, Conservative defence secretary, announced the scrapping of its four Type 22 frigates.
Last year an independent commission, set up in the wake of the Strategic Defence and Security Review, concluded that the UK's reserve forces were in need of "significant revitalisation".
The debate follows fears that the UK government's strategic defence and security review (SDSR) could spell the closure of RAF Leuchars, allowing RAF Lossiemouth in Moray to stay open.
His comments came against the background of the government's 2010 strategic defence and security review (SDSR) which introduced an 8% cut in defence funding and reductions of 30, 000 personnel.
The SNP leader said the Scottish government had engaged with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on "every possible occasion" since details of the Strategic Defence and Security Review were announced.
And he told peers the decision to go ahead with building two aircraft carriers was probably the most difficult and controversial decision taken by the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
In a speech, Dr Fox said the Strategic Defence and Security Review had allowed for "one long enduring mission like Afghanistan" and one shorter programme "of about six months' duration".
And, while the committee welcomed the government's decision to publish the NSS alongside the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review, it said that "a clear over-arching strategy" had not yet emerged.
The Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey and a supporting cast of senior officers appear before the Defence Committee who are investigating the Strategic Defence and Security Review and the National Security Strategy.
Earlier this month about 920 soldiers and 930 RAF personnel were told they were being made redundant, in the first tranche of cuts announced in last year's Strategic Defence and Security Review.
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The report warns that the government's failure to enact substantive safeguards poses a "strategic national-security weakness" for the U.S. The 150-page report, by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, is being released on Wednesday.
With both the Strategic Defence and Security Review and the Comprehensive Spending Review due to be published next week, Mr Lobban said ministers would be looking at what capabilities the UK needs to develop further.
Under the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), announced in 2010, the navy and air force have to cut 5, 000 jobs each, the Army 7, 000 and about 25, 000 civilian staff working at the MoD face redundancy.
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