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U.S. Navy, Royal Australian Navy Sign Statement of Principles

(EXCERPT) Story Number: NNS040227-04 Release Date: 2/27/2004 10:22:00
AM, by Chief Journalist Walter T. Ham IV, Chief of Naval Operations
Public Affairs

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- In a Feb. 26 ceremony in the Pentagon, Chief of
Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark and Australian Chief of Navy Vice
Adm. Christopher Ritchie signed a statement of principles for enhanced
cooperation between the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy on matters
relating to maritime surface warfare capability.

Clark signed a similar statement related to submarine warfare with
Ritchie’s predecessor at the Washington Navy Yard Sept. 10, 2001, one
day before terrorist attacks on America shifted the focus of the
nation and the Navy to the war on terrorism.

“In the days since that last agreement, we’ve certain...

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