While the growth in organized crime posed a significant challenge, the international community was not a defenceless victim.

Mr. Al Ghanem (Kuwait) said that the Palestinian situation was catastrophic because of continued Israeli practices against the encircled and defenceless Palestinian people.

The perpetrators of those violations have thus far enjoyed near total impunity for the gross human rights violations that they inflict upon a defenceless population.

Singapore supports, and will continue to support, all initiatives against the indiscriminate use of anti personnel landmines, especially when they are directed at innocent and defenceless civilians.

Egypt looked forward to the day when the entire international community would help bring an end to those sectarian practices that were being inflicted on a defenceless people.

Members of the Council, reaffirming their condemnation of this murderous attack on defenceless refugees, expressed their expectation that they would receive a final report on the investigation very soon.

The discussion must instead focus on the signs that some nuclear Powers might use nuclear weapons with a limited and controllable scope on people made defenceless by poverty, hunger and disease.

It was imperative to put an end to the suffering they caused, mutilating and killing hundreds of people every day around the world, mostly innocent and defenceless civilians, especially children and women.

The latter part comprising of the Low Countries, that technically became part of East Francia in 870, although it was effectively under the control of Vikings, who raided the largely defenceless Frisian and Frankish towns lying on the Frisian coast and along the rivers.