With South East Asian nations, ASEAN countries, with some of them, we do have defence cooperation, and we continue with them.
France has been maintaining a very special relationship with India on defence matters.
If confirmed, my overall guiding objective for our relationship with India would be to solidify an enduring strategic partnership underpinned by strong defence cooperation with an Indian military able to collaborate effectively with the United States to address shared interests.
We have heard the Chinese refer to the Shangri-La Dialogue speech at various points. You have a lot of articulations about the top leadership itself about what is the spirit of India-China relations. There is a very clear understanding between the two countries about the defence relationship.
India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
The United States is contributing massively to the defence of Europe and we should be very grateful.
A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
Britain and the United States are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defence.
NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO.
From our point of view having American, Canadian or British troops on a rotating basis in Poland and in the Baltics would be an enormous boon to our defence capabilities.
For more than 60 years, the United States has stood by our allies and partners in the Asia Pacific. That includes our defence partnership with Singapore, which stretches back more than two decades.
The European Army is our long-term goal. But first we have to strengthen the European Defence Union.
New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.
We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India's participation.
