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British Virgin Islands
defense is the responsibility of the UK

Cayman Islands
defense is the responsibility of the UK

Christmas Island
defense is the responsibility of Australia

Clipperton Island
defense is the responsibility of France

Cocos (Keeling) Islands
defense is the responsibility of Australia;
the territory has a five-person police force

Cook Islands
defense is the responsibility of New Zealand, in
consultation with the Cook Islands and at its request

Coral Sea Islands
defense is the responsibility of Australia;
visited regularly by the Royal Australian Navy; Australia has
control over the activities of visitors

Cuba
Moscow, for decades the key military supporter and supplier of
Cuba, cut off almost all military aid by 1993

Dhekelia
includes Dhekelia Garrison and Ayios Nikolaos Station
connected by a roadway

Europa Island
defense is the responsibility of France

European Union
In November 2004, the European Union heads of
government signed a "Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe"
that offers possibilities - with some limits - for increased defense
and security cooperation. If ratified, in a process that may take
some two years, this treaty will in effect make operational the
European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) approved in the 2000
Nice Treaty. Despite limits of cooperation for some EU members,
development of a European military planning unit is likely to
continue. So is creation of a rapid-reaction military force and a
humanitarian aid system, which the planning unit will support.
France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Italy
continue to press for wider coordination. The five-nation Eurocorps
- created in 1992 by France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, and Luxembourg
- has already deployed troops and police on peacekeeping missions to
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and the Democratic Republic of
Congo and assumed command of the International Security Assistance
Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan in August 2004. Eurocorps directly
commands the 5,000-man Franco-German Brigade, the Multinational
Command Support Brigade, and EUFOR, which took over from SFOR in
Bosnia in December 2004. Other troop contributions are under
national command - commitments to provide 67,100 troops were made at
the Helsinki EU session in 2000. Some 56,000 EU troops were actually
deployed in 2003. In Augus