But China s public failure to distance itself from the North s military provocations has undermined its credibility in efforts to defuse the crisis.

The most important achievement of Kennedy s brief presidency was to manage the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and defuse what was probably the riskiest episode since the dawn of the nuclear age.

Erdogan has moved to defuse the current crisis by declaring that he will seek early elections as well as sweeping constitutional changes that would make the president popularly elected, rather than elected by the parliament.

We call upon the belligerent parties to work further to defuse the situation.

Last year, we showed how rapidly we could mobilize when we deployed a monitoring mission to the Caucasus in less than three weeks to help defuse the crisis between Russia and Georgia, following the EU mediated peace agreement.

UNMIS remains in contact with the parties involved, and is taking steps to defuse the situation.

Perhaps we should defuse the threats posed by a surveillance society by having an annual day of amnesty.

Behind the scenes, the Asian powers can help to defuse the crises in Darfur, North Korea, Myanmar, and elsewhere.

The strategy worked well, and helped defuse Islamic opposition to the wrenching changes that accompanied the country s rapid economic modernization.

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Security is an obvious priority, and that means being able to defuse tensions by economic rather than military means.

One can well understand a Turkish policy of trying to defuse tensions with Iran over that country s nuclear program.

Georgia has tried to defuse tensions over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but Russia accuses Georgia of aggression and ethnic cleansing.

The European Union urges Nigeria and Cameroon to work constructively together to establish the facts of the incidents and to defuse any resultant tension.

Indeed, he warns that the South China Sea could evolve into another Palestine, unless countries try harder to defuse rather than inflame tensions.

None of the three countries has yet found a stable institutional solution that can defuse intensifying internal tensions and respond effectively to popular demands.

But, to avoid a cataclysm, the US and its allies must defuse the bomb by enforcing the provisions of the 2005 CPA, which they all endorsed.

It was hoped that the report would defuse the hostilities between Japan and China and would thus help maintain peace and stability in the Far East.

A country that seeks to focus on its own enormous development challenges should do everything it can to defuse hostility on its borders.

Moreover, with a real prospect of joining Europe, Turkey would be better placed to defuse actual and potential tensions between Europe and the Middle East.

For the moment, at least, the ruling has served to defuse the emotionally charged debate stirred up by the case in this overwhelmingly Catholic and indigenous country.

Turkey was able not only to defuse the international tensions surrounding its Arab neighbor, but also to engineer the start of direct talks between Syria and Israel.

A number of Governments were actively mobilizing military forces for peacekeeping operations and seeking to defuse political crises before they escalated into large scale conflicts.

The danger, of course, is that if and when confrontation comes over Bolivia, the FTAA, human rights, or press freedoms it will be too late to defuse it.

Reaching the wrong agreement to defuse the austerity bomb, or cushion the economy from its impact, would merely recreate America s long run structural budget deficit a very bad outcome.

But these steps are unlikely to defuse tensions between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan s government and Turkey s military, which sees itself as the guardian of the country s secular state.

For my country, working to defuse the situation will require constructive dialogue between the parties on the basis of the relevant Security Council resolutions resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973).

One can well understand a Turkish policy of trying to defuse tensions with Iran over that country s nuclear program. But the joint Iranian Brazilian Turkish initiative goes beyond such a policy.

Palestinian statehood has always been an indispensable requirement of Israel s own long term peace and security, and it is overwhelmingly in Israel s interest to defuse rather than further inflame the issue.

The IPU was created more than a century ago first and foremost to promote dialogue and build confidence among parliamentarians from all corners of the world in order to prevent or defuse conflicts.

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He pursued preventive diplomacy missions to help defuse tension in several countries, while also engaging ECOWAS, Governments, civil society organizations and donors in developing an integrated regional conflict prevention strategy.

That is why some people are advocating that China undertake a one shot, big bang appreciation large enough to defuse expectations of further strengthening and deter inflows of speculative hot money.

But, if the eurozone is to survive and prosper beyond the current crisis, it will also need comprehensive structural reforms to boost internal labor mobility and defuse the pressures caused by economic adjustment among nations and regions. Whether citizens will support politicians who propose the labor, tax, and other reforms needed to enhance mobility, and whether such reforms will be sufficient to overcome linguistic and cultural barriers, are open questions.

At its core, the global economic crisis is a growth crisis.

But the underlying reasons for the boom differ from crisis to crisis.

But the evolution of the Greek crisis is different from the Asian crisis.

Furthermore, the eurozone crisis does not have the characteristics of a currency crisis.

This phenomenon precedes the crisis, but the crisis has certainly made it worse.

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This pattern was evident in the 1997 1998 Asian financial crisis, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the eurozone crisis that erupted in 2010.

The internecine rivalries that began in earnest last November between fighters from Zawiya and Warshefana, and among Tripoli s various factions, will be difficult to defuse, as the thowar (revolutionaries) have refused repeated calls by the NTC to disarm.

An early warning system' as part of this network, helping to defuse local conflicts before they escalate, as well as providing a channel for moral and material support to civil society groups facing repression.