The United Kingdom Greenpaper : Issues for the Future Strategic Defence Review
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The Security Studies Centre of the French Institute for International Relations is pleased to welcome Baroness Ann Taylor, the United Kingdom"s current minister for international defence and security, to a conference outlining the issues of the future strategic defence review.
Last February, the British Ministry of Defence published the" Defence Green Paper 2010 ".which constituted a first step towards the drafting of the “Strategic Defence Review”Baroness Ann Taylor, will discuss the main points of the paper and sketch out potential developments in terms of European and international cooperation.
The conference will be held in English and chaired by Dominique David, the Executive Director of the French institute for international relations.
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