The insecurity is fertile ground for anarchy and disorder.

Long suffering Afghanistan became a hotbed of conflicts and drug trafficking.

Following the Arab defeat in 1967, Jordan became a hotbed of Palestinian activity.

Free societies are most valuable as marketplaces where free ideas compete.

Otherwise, the myths and prejudices of the past will continue to provide grounds for new conflicts and even clashes between civilizations.

They evoke nostalgia in me, the verdant paradise of childhood.

The only plausible cause is the ever warmer tropical seas on which such storms thrive.

Crises and conflicts provide fertile ground for escalation of the activities of terrorist groups whose victims are innocent people.

After all, this road to Ankara is the home of every motherselling bandit bastard in Turkey.

Different areas have, as a result, become fair ground for political, economic and commercial exploitation by countries and companies that manufacture weapons.

Underdevelopment is, first, the underpinning of political dependence and helplessness, then the source of personal hopelessness it thus creates the pool from which potential terrorists are drawn.

Development concerns such as conflict, food insecurity and poverty were recognized as offering fertile ground for the spread of HIV AIDS.

This prevailing economic and social disparity provides a breeding ground for hunger, disease and poverty and ultimately constitutes a threat to international peace and security.

Almost a quarter of a century of conflict and civil war has undermined the state structure in Afghanistan and made it a breeding ground for instability and terrorism.

Like other carrion feeders, it plays an important role in its ecosystem by disposing of carrion which would otherwise be a breeding ground for disease.

Terrorists prosper in societies where there are unresolved conflicts and few accountable mechanisms for addressing political grievances.

Particularly in the former Soviet Union, seething ethnic tensions, aggravated by political and economic restructuring, have created a hotbed for coerced movements.

However, we feel that success in eradicating that phenomenon requires that we deal with its underlying causes, including the social, economic and political aspects that provide a fertile breeding ground for terrorism.

According to the most qualified experts, the region of the Sahara was in danger of becoming a hotbed of international terrorism and a serious threat, not only to the countries of the Maghreb but also to Europe and to the stability of the whole world.

Lack of water, roads and other infrastructure can deter investment from such communities, limiting their access to attractive employment opportunities and thereby perpetuating poverty.

Only immediate and collective action will make it possible for us to prevent new threats and confront existing ones terrorism in particular which find fertile ground in marginalized societies and individuals and in the persistence of extreme poverty.

Among them the acute crisis in the Balkans, the still smouldering hotbed of the Cyprus problem, the persistence despite the appreciable progress made of the Arab Israeli confrontation and the lack of settlement of the situation around the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

While the authorities must show judgement, because families let us be honest can also be places of oppression and violence, we must accept differences when they accord with the major principles underlying the legitimacy of our Organization.