Development provides a foundation for peace and stability.

Sanctions should not be applied as a punitive measure or used as a means of ousting the legitimate authorities of a Member State.

The United Nations remains the only bastion of peace, justice and development in the world.

The Security Council and regional organizations facing the new challenges to international peace and security.

Because of their destructive power, nuclear weapons in themselves represent a threat to international peace and security.

Terrorism poses a major threat to global peace, as does the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Such behaviour casts a pall over the moral authority of the world's guarantor of peace and respect for human rights.

In cruel and despicable ways, terrorism keeps reminding us how serious a threat it poses to international peace and security.

Nevertheless, as we all know, threats to global peace and stability still abound.

Determining that the situation in the Sudan continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security,

The scourge of terrorism remains one of the defining threats to international peace and security for the twenty first century.

The Council has succeeded in keeping the momentum moving forward on international support for peace in the Sudan.

Determining that the situation in Haiti continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security in the region,

Determining that the situation in Sierra Leone continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security in the region,

Another issue is that of the threat to international peace and security posed by terrorism and the means to combat it.

Because it poses a real threat to international peace and security, the question of the Middle East deserves special attention.

The Bosnia and Herzegovina Constitution (General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, annex IV, art.

And finally, we must recognize that too many of these humanitarian crises result from a total absence of peace and security.

Concerning the scope of application of the optional protocol, Kenya supported, in principle, the inclusion of the concept of peacebuilding.

We must recognize that the largest cluster of threats to international peace and security today lies in the broader Middle East.

There was consistent recognition that terrorism was a major threat to international peace and security and uniform condemnation of it, in all its forms and manifestations.

The United Nations and regional organizations should play complementary roles in facing the challenges to international peace and security.

Aware that discrimination against minorities continues to constitute potential or real threats to internal and international peace and security,

See Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915).

The existence of armed groups, and the intention of some of them to confront the Transitional Government, continues to be among the main threats to peace and security in Haiti.

See Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915).

Tanzania acknowledges and welcomes the increasing systemwide recognition by the United Nations of the dangers posed by small arms to regional and international peace and security.

In this approach, the role of the Security Council as guarantor of international peace and security is of vital importance.

As a founding member of the Agency, India cherishes the recognition by the Nobel Committee of its outstanding contribution to world peace and security.

The process of United Nations reform to enable it to tackle new threats to international peace and security effectively was mentioned by several speakers.

The setting up of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the African Peace and Security Council under the auspices of the African Union is a demonstration of that resolve.

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), including nuclear weapons, and their means of delivery poses a grave threat to international peace and security.

Statement presented by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, a non governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council

Africa's food crisis as a threat to peace and security (see S 2002 30 Add.48 and S 2003 40 Add.14)

Disarmament and non proliferation, being fundamental pillars of international peace and stability, were left out of the outcome document of the 2005 summit.

The greatest risk that we run is erosion of the Security Council s credibility, and, with it, a diminishing capacity to confront grave threats to peace.

We have also provided long standing support to the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, at Lomé, and we shall continue that effort.

This has increasingly become the biggest obstacle to the growth of cross Strait relations, as well as the biggest immediate threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

It is equally important to enhance IHL mechanisms to ensure respect for its provisions before violations constitute a threat to international peace and security.

Kenya welcomes vital contributions to peace and security made by regional organizations forging predictable partnerships between the United Nations and regional organizations.

El Salvador has supported and will continue to support all initiatives to promote the creation and maintenance of zones of peace and cooperation, free of nuclear weapons.

If those efforts were unsuccessful, the Security Council would be obliged to exercise its authority to thwart any threat to international peace and security.

Considering that the massive arms build up and the establishment, as well as continuing construction of air and naval bases by the Greek Cypriot side constitute a threat to peace and stability in the Island and the region

In some countries, substantial peace initiatives undertaken in 2003 had aroused hope for a solution, but in other countries prospects were bleak.

Malaysia condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, committed by whomever, wherever and for whatever purpose, as it constitutes one of the most serious threats to international peace and security.