Translation of "Bewaffnete auseinandersetzungen" in English

Heavy arms have been used in conflicts that have already claimed thousands of victims.

This could involve direct provocations and potentially even armed clashes.

The High Council is not threatening, and wishes armed conflict even less.

Armed clashes between the two sides broke out in early 1998.

There are the bitter armed battles which wage between the rival Islamist armies in Afghanistan.

Military confrontations in the OSCE area continue to exist.

In Europe, the bloody wars of the past century have made armed conflict unthinkable today.

Armed conflicts and natural disasters have displaced more than one million Somalis within their own country.

It was just last Friday that fighting broke out in the region between Kidal and Gao.

Food insecurity, underdevelopment and armed conflicts mean millions of people there are experiencing need time and again.

The response of the international community to armed conflicts should be aimed at an immediate reduction in violence.

Among them, the children involved in armed conflicts deserve special remembrance.

Regional armed conflicts are so numerous that there is no time to list them all.

I therefore believe that we should be careful not to put the cart before the horse, talking more about technical options such as bombs and armed conflict than about crisis resolution.

Throughout the length and breadth of our planet, which is being shaken by totalitarian regimes and ideas, cultural and economic backwardness, famine and destitution, where wars and clashes are being played out or even where conservative and regressive social and economic policies are being promoted, women are the first to be called upon to pay the price and face the consequences.

One in five Africans live in a country which is embroiled in serious conflict and, to make matters worse, the conflicts are increasing, both in number and in intensity.

Humanitarian access has improved as the Council stated but we were told that one in three is still cut off from assistance because of the rains and the lack of capacity, and because of ongoing clashes between government and rebel forces.

We remain concerned that European controls should encourage other regions to adopt and apply - at the very least - minimum standards, in order to ensure that legitimate exports are not subsequently diverted, thereby exacerbating armed conflicts and human rights violations.

On 14 August 1969 McKee, Joe Cahill and a number of other republicans occupied houses at Kashmir Street in an effort to fight off the RUC and loyalists.

These anti-treaty Republicans wanted to spark a new armed confrontation with the British, which they hoped would unite the two factions of the IRA against their common enemy.

In Africa, poverty has replaced the external struggle for influence during the Cold War as a major cause of armed conflict.

The Caprivi conflict was an armed conflict between the Namibian government and the Caprivi Liberation Army, a rebel group working for the secession of the Caprivi Strip.

The Socialist Group believes that the unification of Western Europe successfully demonstrates that ever closer cooperation between peoples and nations can restrain nationalist self-interest and banish armed con flict.

In late 1978 the Sino-Soviet split developed into armed hostilities in South-East Asia as war broke out between Vietnam and Kampuchea, two countries that supported the CPT.