During a teleconference from Hawaii, Admiral Samuel Locklear said that Australia was a vital ally of the United States in the world that is emerging.
According to the PACOM commander of the Indian Ocean (west of Australia) represents a vital strategic region that can not be separated from the Asia-Pacific region.
When we consider our relations with Australia, it is a very good and close ally, who has historically been at our side, and I think that will continue in the future, he said.
In November last year, the two countries announced the installation by the U.S. Army with a powerful radar and a space telescope in Australia, as well as increasing the number of U.S. Marines based in Darwin.
The defense secretary Leon Panetta had then spoken of a great leap forward in bilateral cooperation and an important new frontier in the rebalancing (U.S.) to the Asia-Pacific region.
Asia has become President Barack Obama with a priority of foreign policy.
Last October, the commander of the nuclear aircraft carrier USS George Washington in this regard said in Manila that the presence of the U.S. in Asia was intended to ensure freedom of navigation in these seas disputed by the riparian States, China head.
Very close ally of the United States, Japan, which has a territorial dispute with Beijing about an archipelago in the East China Sea, also intends to strengthen its relations with Australia.
The new Conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has repeated again Thursday before the parliament.
In this regard, a bilateral agreement formally entered into force on 31 January to strengthen cooperation between the Self-Defense Forces of Japan (official name of the armed forces) and the Australian Army.
In announcing the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs described Australia as a strategic partner who shares the same values and the same interests as Japan.
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