Sentence examples for defence relations from inspiring English sources

In its narrowest definition of defence, relations remain remarkably healthy.

They remain, respectively, the third- and fourth-biggest defence spenders in the world.Mr Cameron and Mr Sarkozy are determined to use next month's summit to give new momentum to Anglo-French defence relations.

Despite reports signalling a new era of defence co-operation between Britain and France, the green paper refers just once to France, in the context of closer bilateral defence relations.

Well, up stood Major General Yao Yunzhu, the Director of the Centre for China-America defence Relations at the People's Liberation Army - the PLA's Academy of Military Science in China.

"The two prime ministers reaffirmed the importance of defence relations between Japan and India in their strategic partnership and decided to upgrade and strengthen them," the leaders said in a joint statement after their summit.

Aside from ongoing strategic relations with Russia, India has wide-ranging defence relations with Israel and France.

As a result, says Donald Rumsfeld, the American defence secretary, relations between Germany and the United States have been "poisoned".

The Freedom of Information Act, however, only exempts information about defence, international relations and law enforcement using the threshold of "likely to harm".

Later, in the House of Lords, Carver began to think out loud about awkward national questions, including defence policy, relations between the United States and western Europe, and global warming.

Under the 1989 Official Secrets Act, some offences require proof that a disclosure is likely to damage defence, international relations or law enforcement, or fall into a class of information likely to damage the security services' work.

Of course certain areas are protected - defence, foreign relations, law enforcement, commercial confidentiality, personal privacy, and cabinet documents - but outside the exempted areas, a vital democratic principle would finally have been established: that whenever information is withheld, governments should be required to justify their secrecy.