Defusing Iran

Defusing Iran s Oil Weapon

Defusing Russia s Energy Weapon

Defusing the Syrian Time Bomb

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Instead of waiting passively for sanctions, Iran s leaders decided to start a Middle East crisis by organizing attacks against Israel.

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.

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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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.

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In short, the crisis has produced a deep delegitimization of Greece s democratic politicians and their supposed achievements.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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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The Conference on Disarmament had been given a specific negotiating mandate by the 2000 Review Conference, which it has unfortunately failed to realize, due to continued gridlock over a programme of work.

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.

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.