The forum should hammer out rules for a joint "crisis management mechanism" between the 27-nation bloc and Russia that could be both civilian and military in nature, Merkel said.

默克尔说，该论坛应为27国集团和俄罗斯之间的“危机管理机制”制定出一个联合的条例，该条例可为民用和军事性质的规则。

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The rural element was one of the most important factor which made Huai-Bloc strong in military and weak in politics.

乡土因素成为淮系集团呈现军强政弱特点的原因之一。

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This will satisfy the military bloc in parliament that tabled a demand last year for the fair treatment of their former colleagues.

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Defense chiefs from the members of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS were meeting Tuesday in Bamako to discuss military options, said a spokesman for the bloc, Sunny Ugoh.

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While this might appear to mark a setback for Syria, it has made some important compensatory gains in its relations with the US, Europe and Saudi Arabia, and it is debatable whether Syria's security interests would necessarily have been served by a result enhancing the position of Hizbullah, the Iranian-backed Shia political and military movement that was the driving force of the March 8th opposition bloc.

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