Representatives of the warring factions met on 8 November 1996 in Islamabad.

35. UNSMA continues to maintain useful contacts with other, non warring Afghan factions and personalities.

He reiterated the ban effective 1 November 2004, in part because commanders of the warring factions were running the operations.

In Liberia, the control and exploitation of diamonds, timber and other raw materials was one of the principal objectives of the warring factions.

He is shocked by the seemingly total lack of respect for the right to life of civilians by members of all the warring factions.

Despite attempts by various parties, and the occasional truce, efforts to bring all the warring factions to the negotiation table have yet to succeed.

4. The Special Rapporteur received reports concerning killings of civilians in Kabul as a result of indiscriminate attacks by the Taliban and other warring factions.

The European Union once again calls upon all warring factions to end the bloodshed in Afghanistan and to undertake serious steps towards a negotiated settlement.

Nevertheless, it was not until Ronald Reagan forged an alliance between conservatism s two traditionally warring factions that the political foundations of neo conservatism s triumph were secured.

Her Government had signed a peace treaty with all the warring factions, except one, and had initiated negotiations with that faction at the beginning of November.

The mission must create its own order of battle information and tactical templates for the different warring factions these templates take considerable time and skill to develop.

Despite the disproportionate impact of conflict on women, they continue to hold their families and communities together and often undertake initiatives across warring factions under extremely difficult conditions.

It also made an urgent appeal to the warring factions to stop fighting and resolutely to continue with negotiations to try and find a political settlement to the crisis.

Currently, 11 persons associated with all three of the country's former warring factions are under indictment by the Special Court, 9 of whom are in the custody of the Court.

This implies that the article is applicable even in cases where no government armed force is a party to the conflict, that is, in a situation involving several warring factions.

It is important that the proceedings of the ICC create greater awareness amongst all warring factions of their respective culpability and of the fact that they are not beyond the law.

As a result, thousands of Liberians were forced to flee into neighbouring countries where they faced a growing reluctance to grant asylum following incursions of fighters from the Liberian warring factions.

Disarmament and demobilization have concluded, and the warring factions have been officially dissolved, but most ordinary Liberians are jobless and upset that they have not seen substantial improvements in their living conditions.

He calls on all warring factions in the country to respect international human rights and humanitarian law standards and, in particular, to protect at all times the right to life of civilians and other non combatants.

Expressing its grave concern at the serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, in particular by the Taliban, in Afghanistan and at the inadequacy of measures taken by the warring factions to reverse the situation,

Never before has the Organization recorded so many deliberate, wanton incidents in which personnel have been directly targeted by warring factions or criminals who make a mockery of the principles on which the United Nations was built.

The major impediment to the implementation of the resettlement programme and the rehabilitation efforts is the clearance of the mines which have been extensively planted in the conflict affected areas by the warring factions during the civil war.

The unfortunate decision to start disarmament in December 2003 without identifying appropriate cantonment sites and not involving the warring factions, as well as limited collaboration with local authorities led to public disturbances and death of at least 11 people.

We would particularly like to draw the Council's attention to the need for empirical information on the situation of women and children in armed conflict, and on the recruitment and employment of child soldiers by warring factions, including States and non State actors.

No soldiers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been present in the territory of the Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) since the return of a number of observers who had been dispatched, by joint agreement, to the two warring factions.

These are different wars, with different religious factions, different political factions, and different socioeconomic problems.

Warring parties have terrorized populations into leaving specific areas.

With the signing of the Abuja Agreement in Nigeria in 1995, the international community had hoped that the Liberian conflict would shortly be resolved, because, for the first time, the leaders of the warring factions had been included in the governing Council of State.

That situation was even more worrying owing to the repeated incursions of warring Liberian factions into the territory of Côte d apos Ivoire, which had resulted in material losses and casualties and made it difficult for the local population and the refugees to coexist.

quot The Commission further considers it unacceptable that, in spite of the various agreements signed by the warring factions committing themselves to a cease fire and the pursuit of an agreed peace process, there is an increasing resort to arms in the settlement of differences.

As the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Sudan had pointed out, there was now peace and stability almost everywhere in the Sudan after the peace accord of April 1997 between the Government and the leaders of seven of the warring factions in the south.

In an attempt to end the suffering caused by the war, the Government had signed a peace agreement with all but one of the warring factions, and was conducting high level negotiations to try to convince the remaining faction to join the peace process.

Warring parties seek to terrorize populations into leaving specific areas.

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5. In West Africa, a major breakthrough came in Liberia with the agreement by the warring factions to participate in legislative and presidential elections, preceded by complete disarmament and demobilization under the supervision of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group and the international community.

Moreover, although demining of areas being fought over by warring factions was admittedly difficult, Pakistan's experience had proved that an integrated approach like the one practised in Angola and Kuwait, while time consuming, labour intensive and fraught with dangers for the deminers, could overcome the difficulties and achieve the desired objectives.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Committee of Nine on Liberia had recommended the imposition of sanctions against any member of the warring factions that failed to implement the terms of the Agreement and had threatened to recommend to the Security Council the establishment of a war crimes tribunal.

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57. Moreover, the Somali warring factions are bound by article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. This absolutely binding provision is considered the backbone of humanitarian law pertinent to such situations and lays down the fundamental principles of protection applicable in non international armed conflict. Ibid., para. 9.

39. In an attempt to assist the conflict zones to recover, the UNDP governance programme is working closely with designated non governmental organizations to facilitate conferences for reconciliation and governance among warring factions in order to try to reach agreement to cooperate on rehabilitation projects that would benefit all of the population.

The demobilized members of the various warring forces numbered in the hundreds of thousands.

Perhaps not all groups and factions actually want peace.

Such broadcasts can reach different factions and communities simultaneously.

Shortly thereafter, under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, former president Charles Taylor went into exile in Nigeria, and the Government of Liberia was replaced by the National Transitional Government of Liberia, composed of the three warring factions (the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, the Movement for Democracy in Liberia and the former Government of Liberia).

Faced with this situation, what have we done here in the United Nations? I should remind the Assembly that very soon after international mediation began, the President of the Republic of Gabon called for a commitment from the international community in terms of deploying an international force to separate the warring factions in Congo (Brazzaville).