1.  Here the need to pursue detente with the Eastern bloc was underlined as well as the maintenance of Western defences.

2.  After forty years prowling the perimeters of western defences this is the first Bear bomber to enter NATO airspace by invitation.

3.  It will also help the eastern European nation become accustomed to western defence norms as it prepares to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

4.  Government forces broke out of their western defences at the town of Paranthan on Wednesday as another column was marching south eastwards since Sunday, a military spokesman said.

5.  Iceland was a founder member of the western defence alliance.

6.  A Western defence attache said he was not so sure.

7.  Ankara has been hinting it might block plans to expand the western defence alliance into eastern Europe unless the European Union delivers on promises of closer ties.

8.  The secretary general of the western defence alliance was welcomed on his arrival by Kazakh Foreign Minister Kasimzhomart Tokayev and Defence Minister Mukhtar Altynbayev.

9.  The secretary-general of the western defence alliance was welcomed on his arrival by Kazakh Foreign Minister Kassimjomart Tokaev and Defence Minister Mukhtar Altynbayev.

10.  The talks were expected to include the enlargement of the western defence alliance NATO and the situation in Russia.