With an influx of itinerant labour into these remote and largely lawless regions, the potential for conflict over concessions is growing.

This guarantee will serve as a deterrent against future conflict between Kuwait and Iraq.

The threat of a global nuclear conflict has been eliminated, and the nuclear missile arms race has ceased.

In too many areas of the world, the prospect of conflict involving nuclear weapons risks destabilizing already tense situations, and could lead to human disasters of unimaginable proportions.

The general principle that treaties continued in operation after the outbreak of an armed conflict was acceptable.

Far too many people in war torn countries have seen a fragile peace relapse into new conflict.

However, in a potential zone of conflict, peace keeping must be strictly neutral.

But the prospect of a jihadist style ethnic war that extends throughout the Levant is not especially attractive, either.

There are also genuine questions regarding the ability of a state like Pakistan to control and secure its nuclear arsenal in the event of internal disruption.

They are linked because democracy provides the only long term basis for managing competing ethnic, religious, and cultural interests in a way that minimizes the risk of violent internal conflict.

When completed, the pipeline will make China much less susceptible to foreign military pressure in the event of international conflict.

Those two opposing positions led to an armed conflict, and later to NATO air strikes against Serbia and Montenegro.

Finally, Armenian separatism and groundless territorial claims against Azerbaijan were raised again in 1988 and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict started.

A wider conflict in this volatile region could have the most serious consequences for peace and security in Europe and the Mediterranean.

I exhort you also to take part in the great conflict, which is the conflict of life.

The report exceeded its mandate when it attempts to evaluate the socio economic policies of the Government and risk of a humanitarian crisis , based on fundamentally flawed hypotheses.

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Through such an instrument, States parties would undertake in advance to authorize in case of a conflict the establishment of protection and security areas reserved for defenceless children, women and the elderly.

By controlling conditions that increase the likelihood of armed conflicts, resources can be freed and allocated for other activities such as economic and social development.

We believe that the United Nations should make new and renewed efforts to strengthen mutual trust, thus helping to reduce the probability of conflicts between States.

It is not a conflict.

They are linked because democracy provides the only long term basis for managing competing ethnic, religious, and cultural interests in a way that minimizes the risk of violent internal conflict.

Noting the discriminatory policies, measures and violent actions committed against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and aware of the possible escalation of the situation into a violent conflict there,

Her delegation was thus in favour of retaining draft article 3, which expressly recognized that the outbreak of an armed conflict did not ipso facto terminate or suspend the operation of treaties.

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Even though the danger of a global nuclear conflict has been practically eliminated, the quot local quot wars and regional conflicts breaking out all over the world are causing serious concern.

In Iraq, the danger is that departure could be followed by civil war and chaos ideal conditions for terrorists to maintain havens.

In this declaration, the Committee committed itself to Developing a special set of indicators related to genocide and Strengthening and refining its early warning and urgent action as well as follow up procedures in all situations where indicators suggest the increased possibility of violent conflict and genocide.

I am concerned about the potential for escalation of inter and intra communal tensions into ethnic or sectarian strife and the regional ramifications thereof.

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But there's a third possibility, an enticing, intriguing and frightening possibility.

In a rare spurt of collective political intelligence, and in order to prevent any risk of international conflict, an international treaty was signed in 1959 to govern Antarctica.

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Recalling the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, adopted at The Hague on 14 May 1954,United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 249, No. 3511.

In that context, it is appropriate to ask ourselves what is the role of civil society in conflict prevention? As we know, a conflict expresses tensions existing within a society.

Speaking in general terms, one may conclude that although a global military conflict is far less probable now, at the same time military conflicts limited in scope pose a new and difficult challenge.

Yet the Cold War has been over for fifteen years, and military conflict between France and Germany today seems as unlikely as military conflict between America and Canada.

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