Sentence examples for defence guarantees from inspiring English sources

This disappointment is arguably bigger than fears that Nato defence guarantees might evaporate overnight.

Yet rarely, if ever, has any set of countries been so integrated economically with one country, China, while seeking defence guarantees from another, America.

NATO needs to reassure all its members, including places like Estonia and Latvia with large Russian minorities, that they are protected by the alliance's mutual defence guarantees.

Mr Abe will be cheered by legislation introduced by Congress which, if passed, will give the president "fast-track" negotiating authority on such deals.As for security, at the time of the Soviet threat Japan could freeride on America's defence guarantees while pursuing economic development.

At a recent international conference I attended in Latvia's capital, Riga, much of the talk centred understandably on the strengthening of western defence guarantees (Nato countries are set to deploy four battalions in Poland and the three Baltic states by June 2017).

Washington and other NATO powers must also find a way to reassure increasingly flustered Eastern European states - particularly the former Soviet Baltics - that their defence guarantees will be honoured, without escalating tensions.

At the core of that is the defence guarantee.

That means a single foreign policy decided by majority vote, and a mutual defence guarantee.

Many countries have been clamouring to win the coveted one-for-all-and-all-for-one defence guarantee.

Although the attraction of NATO's defence guarantee is obvious, after decades of communist misrule what embattled citizens want most of all is economic security.

It would also stretch the defence guarantee to snapping point and put the necessary ratification of new members by national parliaments in jeopardy for all.