Tokyo would be forced to turn to the United States for support under the mutual security treaty.
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Reassurances about Japan's joint security treaty with America aside, Mr Hashimoto's hosts want convincing on several other matters.
The joint security treaty that Japan signed with the United States in 1960 remains the cornerstone of the country's defence policy.
Asia marks two important anniversaries this year: the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and 60 years since the beginning of the Korean War.
Mr Keating's government signed a security treaty with Indonesia in 1995.
As if to emphasise how far out, Indonesia on September 16th cancelled the security treaty that Australia thought would bring the two countries together in a crisis.
It shifts the whole emphasis of the security treaty between the two countries away from defending the Japanese archipelago towards dealing with conflicts in the region surrounding Japan.
America has been making it clear for several years that the biggest stick it has in coping with conflicts in and around the Pacific is its security treaty with Japan.
Shortly afterwards, America and Japan reaffirmed their bilateral security treaty, which commits America to the defence of Japan, and agreed to look for ways to increase Japan's contribution to regional security.
The Europeans argued that this amounted to America rewriting, through a threatened veto in the Security Council, a treaty which they had already ratified.
The Senate would be well-advised, however, to reflect on the heartburn caused by the American International Group bonuses debacle and, for the sake of national security, read the treaty before casting any votes.
President Obama's claims that the New START Treaty will enhance American security and make the planet safer do not stand up to scrutiny.
If Israel and Syria are informed that U.S. peacekeepers are not in the cards, they can plan accordingly as they negotiate security arrangements for their anticipated peace treaty.
The Russians really consider the treaty the cornerstone of security.
In its first paper, published in August 1988, the Center for Security Policy warned that the ABM Treaty had not worked out as intended and urged that what was then known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) developed and deployed.
For too long, America has remained undefended even as the premises of the ABM Treaty proved erroneous and the security it was supposed to provide failed to materialize.
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Before the ceremony at the Munich Conference on Security Policy, Mrs Clinton said the treaty was "another example of the kind of clear-eyed co-operation that is in everyone's interests".
But for Senators who were persuaded that the treaty is inimical to American security interests, delaying its consideration while the Clinton Administration sought to neutralize their opposition and gain the votes for ratification would not have been sensible.
It's manifested in the progress we've made on nuclear security and nonproliferation through the New START Treaty and our efforts to lock down nuclear materials together, and it's manifested, frankly, in the fact that, even as we speak now, the Russians are hosting the P5-plus-1 talks in Moscow aimed at getting Iran to live up to their international obligations.
An astounding array of former top security policy practitioners opposes this Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
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The point of this complex formula was that the resolution would have referred to a provision in the ICC treaty itself, which allows the Security Council to suspend an investigation by the court.
But ratifying this treaty would have tangible costs for our security .
The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty , was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.
The study, entitled Mapping a National Security Failure: The Ratification of the New START Treaty (PDF), was authored by Center Vice President Ben Lerner.
The European Parliament's Defence and Scrutiny Committee took evidence on 28 September 2010 on the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the EU's common security and defence policy.
Approximately 61, 000 of these forces are assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.
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Vice-President Joseph Biden has warned the US that failure to ratify a new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia will "endanger our national security".
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