To our allies and partners, and all those who have long looked to the United States as an underwriter of regional and global security: our commitment to defend our interests and our allies has never been stronger.
The proper course for world leaders today, Mr. Gates argued, was "to balance restraint in international affairs with the resolve and will to back up our commitments and defend our interests when called upon".
"We reaffirm our ironclad commitments to defend our allies utilizing the full spectrum of U.S. extended deterrence capabilities," the statement added.
We must implement it, actively research it," going on to ask the audience to take on "a moral, philosophical and technical commitment to enforce and defend our liberties".
Bringing up its victory in a co-plaintiff's case last week, the company's general counsel said, "This split verdict reaffirms our commitment to defending each case on a case-by-case basis.
"While this is not the outcome we had hoped for, our commitment to defending these cases one at a time remains the same," Merck's general counsel, Kenneth C. Frazier, said in a statement.
"We, the G7 foreign ministers, of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the high representative of the European Union, affirm our commitment to defending freedom of expression and protection of a free press," they said.
On World Press Freedom Day, 116 days after the attack at the office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left 11 dead and 12 wounded, we, the undersigned, reaffirm our commitment to defending the right to freedom of expression, even when that right is being used to express views that we and others may find difficult, or even offensive.
The letter says: "On World Press Freedom Day, 116 days after the attack at the office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left 11 dead and 12 wounded, we, the undersigned, reaffirm our commitment to defending the right to freedom of expression, even when that right is being used to express views that we and others may find difficult, or even offensive".
"Our commitment to defending these cases one at a time remains the same," said Merck chief counsel Kenneth Frazier in a prepared statement.
