Defence Minister

The South's defence minister scoffed that this would be like asking a burglar to come and inspect the scene of the crime.

In the midst of all this the president sacked the defence minister after he insulted some of her closest aides in an interview.

Juan Manuel Santos resigned as defence minister to launch a presidential bid but said he would not run against Mr Uribe.

President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil has replaced her defence minister after he made disparaging remarks about other senior officials.

The defence minister said the explosion might have been caused by a mine laid by North Korea during the Korean war, from 1950-53.

The South's defence minister's remarks come at a time of renewed tensions between the two Koreas.

Two pirates also died, and three others were taken prisoner, said the French defence minister, Herve Morin.

The Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said the eight suspects included Russian, Estonian and Latvian citizens.

Czech Defence Minister Alexandr Vondra told the Czech CTK news agency the system would be passive without any capacity for missile launch.

Brazil's defence minister said the possibility was never considered.

The defence minister, Ahmad Mukhtar, said Pakistani soldiers might be pulled from guarding the Afghan border.

Back in Tel Aviv, his defence minister, Ehud Barak, laid out terms for a final agreement.

The French Defence Minister Alain Juppe said the two were found dead on the Niger-Mali border after the clash.

The general in Korea is chosen by the Defence Minister and deputed into the Foreign Office.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the charismatic defence minister, is Germany's most popular politician and a potential chancellor.

The German defence minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, was forced to quit after a long row over plagiarism in his doctoral thesis.

Commenting on the change of plan, Shigeru Ishiba, Japan's defence minister, cited "something close to a backlash" on Chinese websites.

Civil Defence Minister John Carter regularly through the television media, to inform the public of the latest earthquake.

Defence Minister Robert Hill says the aircraft will be used for border control operations and intelligence gathering.

Juan Manuel Santos, his former defence minister, who leads the opinion polls, says that security policy needs to be adapted to new threats.

Six years ago a German defence minister, Peter Struck, said his own country's security was being defended in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush.

A monument to the landings, hewn out of local rock, was unveiled by Boro Vucinic, Montenegro's defence minister.

On March 15th the Maoist defence minister refused to extend the service of eight brigadier-generals, as General Katwal had asked him to.

Over five decades as defence minister, he built the army into a formidable force.

Both Mr Putin and his defence minister, Sergei Ivanov, encouraged this epochal thinking by talking about a new, if virtual, "Berlin Wall" .

Despite opposition from members of his party, the defence minister finally consented last week.

Defence Minister Kim has angered the North with a string of hardline statements since taking up his post last December.

Since June Ukraine has not had a defence minister. Its economy contracted by 18% in the second quarter of the year.

French Defence Minister Herve Morin blamed the German government for delays in a new agreement on the A400M.

Mr Aso will face a challenge from Yuriko Koike, a former defence minister, who will try to rally disaffected Koizumi followers behind her.

Occasional desertions and the mysterious sacking of Ali Habib, the defence minister, suggest some unease over the crackdown.

Joel Fitzgibbon, Australia's defence minister, acknowledged yesterday that the navy was suffering an acute manpower problem.

This week China's defence minister met Kenya's president and promised a host of military goodies to boost Kenya's role as a peacekeeper.

Before the first war started, Yeltsin's defence minister boasted that Grozny would be taken in two hours.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who became defence minister in October, allude d early on to Afghanistan's "warlike conditions" .

Manaf Tlass, a senior commander in the elite Republican Guard and son of a former defence minister, is staying home for unknown reasons.

The defence minister is a well-known hawk who has been admonished by the president for previous tough talk.

An undercover FBI agent posed as the defence minister of an unnamed African nation.

The declaration comes as Liang Guanglie makes the first-ever visit by a Chinese defence minister to the Indian Ocean island state.

NEW DELHI - India and China are working on a new mechanism to resolve their longtime boundary dispute, Defence Minister A. K. Antony said.

The assistant defence minister said Saudi forces destroyed the rebels, who tried to occupy a border village.

The defence minister even flew 20 vials out to Afghanistan to give Lithuanian soldiers a reminder of home.

He raised Sergei Ivanov, the defence minister and another ex-KGB man, to the same position as Mr Medvedev.

Sudan's defence minister, among others, darkly warned against the dire consequences of secession.

"It doesn't seem possible for us to understand France being so far in front, " Vecdi Gonul, the Turkish defence minister, said.

Last October the UAE denied a plane carrying the Canadian defence minister and chief of defence staff permission to land at Camp Mirage.

Ukraine's defence minister says the army is loyal to the president; the police answer to the government.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Germany's defence minister, presented parliament with five options to reform the country's military.

The defence minister was subsequently forced to resign after the attack, in which four people died.

Poland's foreign (and ex-defence) minister, Radek Sikorski, is an early front-runner.

Calling for an immediate end to a "cruel and brutal crime" , Lindiwe Sisulu, the defence minister, says the government is working on it.

Germany's most popular politician is Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the aristocratic defence minister.

The resignations came hours after Ecuador's defence minister stepped down without explanation.

Sergei Ivanov, Russia's defence minister, says many of the foreign mercenaries who once stiffened the resistance have decamped to Iraq.

He and his defence minister, Amir Peretz, are not ex-generals like their predecessors.

His defence minister and successor, Juan Manuel Santos, is proving to be more open-minded.

Japan's defence minister warned that the emergency was reaching a critical turning point.

Kim Kwang-jin, the south's defence minister, ordered his staff to seek "all possible means" to deal with any response from Pyongyang.

NCL, the firm run by the defence minister's well-connected son, had struck pure contracting gold.

Even before Tuesday's barrage, his defence minister had broached the taboo subject of redeploying tactical nuclear weapons removed in 1991.

Few believed him. Four days later his defence minister survived an assassination attempt.

Franz Josef Jung, then defence minister, initially denied that any civilians were killed.

"You can see things from here that you can't see from Norway, " says Sven Mikser, a former Estonian defence minister.

Four days later his defence minister survived an assassination attempt.

Since Mr Santos served as Mr Uribe's defence minister, he has focused on attacking the group's leaders to cause disarray in the ranks.

Even so, expect the new defence minister, if there is one, to speak better French than Mr O'Connor.

Meanwhile, President Bashar al-Assad appointed a new defence minister.

This week both the defence minister and the minister for unification offered to resign.

He won critical support on the eve of the vote when the majlis applauded his choice of defence minister, Ahmad Vahidi.

How can we get the UN to slow down when you make this kind of announcement by your Defence Minister?

Indian Defence Minister A. K. Antony made the announcement during a visit to Seychelles.

It is also deplorable to note Israel's Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai warn that the offensive against Gaza could take weeks.

Rumor has it that the defence minister will soon resign .

Inconveniently, the president's new defence minister, Mahamat Ali Abdallah Nassour, also looks strong.

Several, such as the deputy defence minister, Prince Abdel Rahman, and the governor of Riyadh, Prince Salman, are considered able.

Yet on July 15th Mr Uribe's defence minister, Gabriel Silva, revealed new evidence to the press.

Best-placed to do that is Juan Manuel Santos, Mr Uribe's former defence minister, who immediately announced his candidacy.

An apparatchik turns to the defence minister and asks, "Who are they? "

Within 24 hours the heads of the three armed forces threatened to resign along with Nelson Jobim, the defence minister.

Through Sunnis in his government, such as the defence minister, he has been seeking out insurgent groups that might parley.

He is also, secretary defence R&D and scientific advisor to the defence minister.

Sten Tolgfors, Sweden's defence minister, has suggested sharing airbases with Norway.

The Chinese defence minister visited just before the elections to agree to modernise Kenya's armed forces.

Then, in 2002, she became defence minister.

The defence minister, Juwono Sudarsono, says it has identified about 1, 500 military firms.

In September, Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith said the enhance cooperation would be 'more ships in, ships out;

Who runs the military council: the defence minister, Muhammad Tantawi, once a Mubarak man, always conservative and now ailing;