Italy's Foreign Minister leads the push to create a European army for the post-Lisbon EU. As a new Europe takes shape following the adoption of the Lisbon treaty the Minister suggests that Europe should not be left behind the superpowers.

The basic goal of the security safeguarding of Armenia has been considered as a primary link for the foreign policy of the state the other priorities of which have proceeded and will in the future from it. The traced course of our current security and foreign policy with its urgency of implication and complementation appears through implementation of multi-polar security policy in our days.

Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie on Thursday called for further deepening exchanges and cooperation between defence departments and armed forces of China and Pakistan.

China and Malawi agreed to strengthen military cooperation in various fields during the talks between the defense ministers of the two countries here on Wednesday.

India's prime minister and defense minister are among the top government officials who are to meet in New Delhi with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from the Indian capital the visit is the latest example of growing defense ties between the United States and India.

China will strengthen it's military and other cooperation with Sudan although being criticized for supporting the African country, state media said. China buys two-thirds of Sudan's oil and sells it weapons and military aircraft, but has been criticized for not using its influence to do more to stop the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.

The Prime Minister of the Ukraine, Victor Yanukovich, ordered Vice-Premier Vladimir Radchenko to "urgently begin preparations for the negotiations with Russia on developing cooperation in the defense complex". He emphasized that Russia is the main partner of the Ukraine in the military sphere today. "However, - he said, - the volumes of such cooperation are annually reduced".