We have tools to prevent armed conflicts.

Efforts to prevent conflicts were meaningless if the economic roots of those conflicts were not addressed.

This relates in particular to long term efforts to prevent conflicts and promote political settlement of conflicts.

The United Nations was created to prevent war and resolve conflicts.

544. General measures designed to prevent the occurrence of conflicts were discussed.

This might, in turn, prevent prevailing uncertainties from escalating into actual conflicts.

Thus far, the Council has not effectively carried out its responsibility to prevent conflicts.

Members underlined the need to prevent ethnic conflicts from erupting into violence, which a proper implementation of the Convention would help to prevent.

Since then Croatia has already taken some steps in an attempt to prevent further conflicts

It must be said that the problem in addressing such conflicts is that the United Nations was not created to prevent internal conflicts among civilians.

Arms control and disarmament agreements can help prevent conflicts. Such agreements also play an important role in containing conflicts, and in peace keeping and peacemaking.

Such envoys work with member countries to carry out dialogue and prevent conflicts before they occur.

The primary focus for action to prevent conflicts in a democratic society should be national parliaments.

Thus, circumstances would be created to prevent such situations from evolving into open disputes or conflicts.

However, the best way in which to protect civilians is to prevent conflicts in the first place.

If we want to prevent such armed conflicts, we should be able to address their root causes.

Lacking the strength to prevent them, we have endeavoured to heal the consequences of wars and armed conflicts.

Reflecting that trend, the Organization of African Unity has just created machinery to prevent, manage and settle conflicts.

The Republic of Belarus will actively participate in the efforts of the United Nations to prevent such conflicts.

If we are unable to nurture and build sustainable peace, we cannot prevent new conflicts from breaking out or, indeed, prevent old ones from relapsing into new violence.

My delegation believes that the peacebuilding commission is designed both to prevent conflicts and to address post conflict issues.

Preventive diplomacy is action to prevent disputes from arising between parties, to prevent existing disputes from escalating into conflicts and to limit the spread of the latter when they occur.

The United Nations worked tirelessly around the globe throughout the year to prevent and resolve conflicts and to consolidate peace.

Greater attention should be paid to the development of regional security and cooperation mechanisms to prevent interstate and internal conflicts.

Canada joins others in supporting African efforts to prevent, mediate and resolve regional conflicts and in supporting Africa's peacekeeping capacity.

The United Nations must define universal guidelines to prevent the application of differing criteria to the solution of various conflicts.

(b) The need to reinforce the adoption of preventive measures, designed either to prevent conflicts or to prevent children from taking direct or indirect part in the hostilities or suffering its effects

It will help prevent conflicts from restarting and encourage countries to make the transition from violent instability to peaceful, sustained development.

The world community should build an effective global partnership between States and institutions to prevent and combat terrorism and violent conflicts.

There is also a need for political partnership between regional organizations and the United Nations to prevent, manage and resolve conflicts.

Once armed conflicts were brought under control, disarmament, demobilization and the reintegration of former combatants would prevent a return to chaos.

Nonetheless, our optimism is tempered by the numerous armed conflicts that afflict our continent and prevent the attainment of development goals.

More effective ways to prevent and contain conflicts have been considered by the United Nations, world leaders and respected think tanks.

Pragmatic and effective work in the field is necessary in order to prevent conflicts from arising or at least from turning into armed ones and to contribute to the resolution of ongoing conflicts.

The international community must assist Africa particularly the Organization of African Unity, which has never remained indifferent to the various conflicts that have embroiled certain Member States to prevent conflicts and manage them better.

Iraq pays tribute to the United Nations, which has provided the world with a broad umbrella to prevent wars and resolve conflicts.

In addition, the Economic Community of West African States and other subregional organizations are making efforts to prevent deadly conflicts in Africa.

Collective efforts should be made in order to prevent the escalation of armed conflicts and to achieve their just and lasting resolution.

The Russian Federation believes that the States Members of the United Nations must make every possible effort to put an end to current armed conflicts and prevent the emergence of such conflicts in the future.

The aim is to prevent submunitions from becoming explosive remnants of war, which constitute real risk factors for civilian populations once conflicts end.

Encourage and support the African regional and subregional organizations' initiatives to prevent, mediate and resolve conflicts with the assistance of the United Nations

Mr. Hussain (Pakistan) said that it was important to prevent conflicts and to make post conflict areas safe for the return of refugees.

The Security Council acknowledges the importance of helping to prevent future conflicts through addressing their root causes in a legitimate and fair manner.

I would like to commend all United Nations activities undertaken throughout the world to prevent conflicts and to restore, maintain and consolidate peace.

With that Committee we are trying to prevent the emergence of conflicts in the subregion by developing measures to alleviate situations of conflict.