Monat: Mai 2011

MIAMI, May 18, 2011 — An Afghan detainee died of an appar­ent sui­cide ear­ly this morn­ing at the U.S. deten­tion facil­i­ty at Naval Sta­tion Guantanamo … 

TOPICS: HMAS Toowoom­ba depar­ture to the Mid­dle East; CDF, VCDF and Ser­vice Chiefs appoint­ments. STEPHEN SMITH: I’m very pleased to be here to help send … 

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2011 — U.S.financial assis­tance to Pak­istan should con­tin­ue, Defense Sec­re­tary Robert M. Gates said here today. “I think we have to proceed … 

Min­is­ter for Defence Materiel Jason Clare today kicked off in the next stage of indus­try con­sul­ta­tion on the Aus­­tralia-Unit­ed States Defence Trade Coop­er­a­tion Treaty. 

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2011 — The U.S. chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his Chi­nese coun­ter­part announced the com­ple­tion of two days of … 

Aus­tralian Defence Force (ADF) mem­bers of Secu­ri­ty Detach­ment Sev­en­teen, known as SECDET XVII, returned home to Aus­tralia today after a suc­cess­ful eight-month deploy­ment to Iraq. 

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2011 — Defense Sec­re­tary Robert M. Gates today announced the frame­work for a com­pre­hen­sive review of mil­i­tary spend­ing designed to put national … 

ARMY AM Gen­er­al, LLC, South Bend, Ind., was award­ed on May 9 a $164,426,332 firm-fixed-price con­tract. The award will pro­vide for the pro­cure­ment of 763 … 

Remarks by EU High Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Cather­ine Ash­ton fol­low­ing her meet­ing with U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Hillary Rod­ham Clin­ton “Sec­re­tary Clin­ton, Hillary, first of all, it’s …

3088th ECONOMIC and FINANCIAL AFFAIRS Coun­cil meet­ing Brus­sels, 17 May 2011 The Coun­cil adopt­ed the fol­low­ing con­clu­sions: “1. The Coun­cil recalls the spe­cif­ic legal basis … 

Ear­li­er this week the Chief of the Defence Force, Air Chief Mar­shal Angus Hous­ton, host­ed a vis­it to Can­ber­ra by Gen­er­al Peter van Uhm, the … 

WASHINGTON, May 17, 2011 — A com­bined Afghan and coali­tion force cap­tured a Tal­iban road­side bomb facil­i­ta­tor, along with sev­er­al oth­er sus­pect­ed insur­gents, in the … 

WASHINGTON, May 17, 2011 — White House offi­cials yes­ter­day launched a strat­e­gy that the admin­is­tra­tion says uni­fies U.S. engage­ment with inter­na­tion­al part­ners on a range … 

WASHINGTON, May 16, 2011 — The Unit­ed States has no inten­tion of putting boots on the ground in Libya and should not become mil­i­tar­i­ly involved … 

WASHINGTON, May 16, 2011 — The May 1 raid that killed al-Qai­­da leader Osama bin Laden was “a per­fect fusion of intel­li­gence col­lec­tion, intel­li­gence analysis …