11.   Nastase noted that Romania needs to continue reforms, reduce double-digit inflation, modernize its army and continue to sell off state companies.

12.   Those figures do not include the cost of modernizing the army, which the defense ministry says is necessary regardless of whether Poland enters NATO.

13.   Greece plans to modernize its army and purchase modern weaponry, Prime Minister Costas Simitis announced on Friday in a speech marked by angry outbursts against Turkey.

14.   President Yoweri Musevni has pledged to modernize the army.