1.   Kuwait has signed defense pacts with the United States, Russia, France and Britain over the last three years.

2.   Last year, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Congo even formalized a mutual defense pact.

3.   Massood and Dostum were bitter enemies until their new defense pact was signed in the Hindu Kush mountains two weeks after the Taliban seized Kabul.

4.   Separately, the Israelis are seeking an upgraded security relationship with the United States, though one that falls short of a mutual defense pact.

5.   That pressure prompted the Croatian and Bosnian governments last weekend to agree to a mutual defense pact.

6.   The collapse of communism has forced NATO to search for a new role beyond that of a mutual defense pact.

7.   Police on the island said the two were spying on behalf of Turkey, which has a defense pact with Israel.

8.   Portugal will also examine the possibility of signing a defense pact with its former colony, Guterres said.

9.   Qatar and Britain have concluded a four-day joint military exercise, the first since the two countries signed a defense pact two months ago.

10.   A bilateral defense pact provides for the building on Qatari territory of the largest U.S. weapons storage site outside the United States.