11.   Earlier this year, one flew from the U.S. to Australia and back to take part in joint military exercises.

12.   Fernandes said he hoped to deepen defense cooperation with the United States, broaden military-to-military cooperation and stage joint military exercises.

13.   For the South African military, it will be the first joint exercise outside the country since sanctions were imposed on the apartheid regime decades ago.

14.   He noted that Pakistan has cooperated militarily with Iran for years and that the two countries are about to conduct joint naval exercises.

15.   Hong Kong and Chinese marine police recently carried out their first joint anti-illegal exercise.

16.   Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic are shopping for new Western fighter jets as the first joint military exercises of NATO and Eastern European forces begin.

17.   In a communique issued by the Foreign Ministry here, Mexico rejected the idea of joint military exercises, which Perry announced late last week.

18.   It will allow Japan to provide weapons parts to U.S. forces in joint exercises and for peacekeeping efforts outside Japan.

19.   Joint military exercises, as well as training, have been suspended, and government-backed student visits have been ended.

20.   Last year, when the first Russian-American joint exercise was held in Russia, communist protesters greeted American soldiers in Moscow and at the rural training site.