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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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b. Maintain the security relationships with the Philippines as provided for in 12 above.
c Conclude a security arrangement with Australia and New Zealand.
d. Consider the desirability of security arrangements with other countries of Asia, either on a bilateral or multilateral basis.
e. Encourage and support closer economic and political cooperation with and among the countries of Asia in keeping with the objective stated in 6-d above.
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