21.   Military aspects of the peace plan provide for the quartering of the troops under UN supervision and the formation of a new joint national defence force.

22.   Military observers say UNITA has failed to turn over large quantities of heavy weaponry it is holding, ahead of the formation of a new joint national defence force.

23.   Pena is to become deputy commander of the joint defence force.

24.   Some of them have already tried to lure potential buyers with offers of joint defence ventures in the region, extensive training and maintenance services for their clients.

25.   South Africa and Germany signed a key military cooperation pact Friday dealing with the future exchange of armaments, technology, and other joint defence initiatives.

26.   The accord provides for demobilisation of the rival armies, the formation of a new joint defence force and a political settlement.

27.   The agenda was expected to be dominated by discussions of joint defence matters, notably plans for a Mediterranean-based Euro-force, which also involves Spain.

28.   The council will oversee the implementation of a joint defence pact which commits the GCC countries to defend any member state against an outside threat.

29.   The government troops were backed by forces from Nigeria and Guinea, who are in Sierra Leone under a joint defence pact.

30.   The latter was a reference to Guinean and Nigerian troops fighting alongside the Sierra Leonean army under a joint defence pact.