On 5 July, the United Nations Security Council is to debate a report leaked on 22 June that crystallises several battles for influence between New York and The Hague. It is to be officially presented by Virginia Gamba, the special UN representative for children and armed conflict, who travelled to Russia in late May.
While intelligence controls were left out of debates on the military planning law at France's Assemblée Nationale, senators are now putting the issue firmly back on the agenda.
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The US military has increased its footprint on the continent by boosting its telecommunications networks in Germany and lately in Poland especially. Washington's efforts include bringing in more troops and reinforcing its infrastructure there.
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Scopa Industries, which ran foul of the US authorities after it tried to set up partnerships with Russia and China, is aiming to get back into the US defence market, as illustrated by the non-binding agreement it has struck with European group Airbus.
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A confidential French government report is opposed to giving the private security watchdog CNAPS oversight of the activities of private security and defence service companies and security consultants' operating overseas.
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The German aeronautical engineering company Aerodata is integrating ISR technologies into two Beechcraft King Air aircraft for the Ivorian air force.
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