Japan and NATO would like to boost bilateral cooperation in security area

Visiting Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Anders Rasmussen and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met here Monday, April 15, 2013, to boost bilateral cooperation in security area, local media reported.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, left, poses with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a meeting in Tokyo Monday, April 15, 2013.

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U.S. - NATO countries work on plans for military action in Syria after the use of chemical weapons

After the use of Chemical weapons in Syria, there is some plans to send troops on the ground to secure Syria's chemical weapons facilities if they were in danger of being looted. An actual deployment would likely involve far fewer ground troops, and from various nations, but it underscores the scope of the challenge.

The opposition Free Syrian Army is creating a special unit of men trained to secure Syria’s chemical weapons sites, a former general in the country’s chemical and biological weapons administration has told the Daily Telegraph.

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