The members of Unasur, a fledgling South American political union, set up a defence council intended to defuse conflicts.
The Jordanian Bar Association has set up a defence committee to ensure that he gets a fair trial.There has also been political fall-out.
All parties agreed before the election on the need to keep nuclear weapons, set up a defence review, and improve the welfare of British troops and their families.
Qusra set up a defence committee earlier this month after one of the village's four mosques was vandalised in a settler attack condemned by the US and the European Union.
Or a poem would: an "easy but invincible poem" to "break those iron bars/A poem to make the stars weep".He was lucky that, outside jail, his then girlfriend had set up a defence committee to campaign for his release, and that radical sisters and brothers Angela Davis, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger joined in to help.
However, the Battalion managed to rendezvous with the coup-de-main forces at the Caen and Orne bridges, and were able to set up a defence against German counter-attacks.
The new group will have the appearance of purposefulness, including a secretariat in Ecuador and a parliament in Bolivia, but not much more than that.The leaders also discussed setting up a South American Defence Council as a forum to talk about defence and security.
China, thinks Paul Beaver of the Jane's defence group, would see this as a big step towards setting up a theatre missile defence for Taiwan, perhaps even as a pledge to defend Taiwan in the event of an invasion.
See articleChina overreachesChina announced that it was setting up a new "air defence identification zone" over the East China Sea, which covers the airspace above islands controlled by Japan but claimed by China.
