Congress also approved intelligence sharing with the rebels.

The ambassador and the councillor spent the next hour discussing possible ways to improve ties between the governments, from trade agreements to increased intelligence sharing between the Defense Force and Starfleet.

But any intelligence sharing with the United States constitutes a notable shift in relations.

The Americans proposed a new clearinghouse for intelligence sharing aimed at assessing threats by terrorist groups and by states like Iran and Iraq.

In February 2013, the U.S. deployed 100 troops to assist in intelligence collection and will also facilitate intelligence sharing to support French operations in neighboring Mali.

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"It will foster the seamless intelligence sharing that we need to prevent acts of terror and I encourage other states to look at the New York model," Mr. Mueller added.

NATO members committed themselves to improve intelligence sharing through a Terrorist Threat Intelligence Unit.

It formalized the intelligence sharing agreement in the Atlantic Charter, signed in 1941, before the entry of the U.S. into the conflict.

The Group was created after 9/11 to further intelligence sharing cooperation between European intelligence structures.