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

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

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

Many robots do jobs that are hazardous to people such as defusing bombs, mines and exploring shipwrecks.

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

Defusing the crises in Darfur and elsewhere will be among the greatest challenges facing the new Secretary General.

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

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.

The bloody conflict between these young men and the security authorities has been defused, security and stability have prevailed, and a large number of those who took part in the discussions have been set at liberty.

There, and in the volatile Caucasus, a significant improvement in Europe s relations with Russia is crucial to defusing tensions.

We see this in the higher profile that China has taken in defusing the North Korean nuclear crisis and in drafting the recent Security Council resolution on Darfur.

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

Current U.S. President Barack Obama's position towards North Korea has been to resist making deals with North Korea for the sake of defusing tension, a policy known as strategic patience.

Not until the great Powers are able to establish a higher cause of peace and common prosperity in the global order will the tension between power and higher cause be defused.

The bomb has not been defused.

It does not look good for Obama and his Middle East policy. But if he succeeds in defusing the situation there, he would more than deserve his Nobel Peace Prize.

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.

Some of the greatest tensions in the world say India and Pakistan, or North and South Korea should be defused as part of region wide strengthening.

The precariousness of the situation throughout the Ferghana valley has attracted the attention of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which has much experience in defusing difficult border conflicts in the Balkans and elsewhere.

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.

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.

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.

Georgia has tried to defuse tensions over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but Russia accuses Georgia of aggression and ethnic cleansing. Its main goal is to inhibit Western support for Georgia, and to prevent reconciliation with the breakaway regions.

It was a glass bottle filled with flammable liquids, with a simple hand lit fuse.

It does not look good for Obama and his Middle East policy. But if he succeeds in defusing the situation there, he would more than deserve his Nobel Peace Prize.

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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.

Ma has created the necessary conditions for deactivating the trigger.

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. They would have virtually all of the regional stakeholders on their side as well.

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It may be, as some Japanese colleagues tell me, that newly elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, despite his deeply conservative nationalist background and instincts, is ultimately a realist who will do what it takes no doubt with the help of pressure from the United States to defuse these tensions.

General Zia ul Haq s visit to watch a match in Jaipur in 1986 was an exercise in cynicism, since it was aimed at defusing tensions stoked by his own policy of fomenting and aiding Sikh militant secessionism in India.

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

In any case, trade agreements, however beneficial, can do little to defuse Asia s sovereignty disputes, and it is here the greatest current source of regional tensions that a shared common enterprise is not only possible, but also necessary if peace is to be preserved.

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.

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. This need has become more urgent than ever in view of the new realities of power in the region.

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

This would be different from applying sanctions, which would risk triggering a Masada Complex that might push Israel to further extremes.

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

But, with 90 days left to bridge the ideological and partisan divide before another crisis erupts, the fuse on America s debt bomb is getting shorter and shorter.