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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Quotable quotes from the UN Security Council high-level meeting on preventive diplomacy, which was opened here Thursday: "Violent conflict continues to wreak a shocking toll on individuals, societies and economies. Every day, we can see the costs of the failure to prevent. Despite recent advances, preventive diplomacy continues to face long odds and numerous challenges. A critical factor is political will. If the parties do not want peace, or are unwilling to compromise, it is extraordinarily difficult to persuade or impose it from the outside. For this and other familiar reasons, we are still too often unable to act until a situation visibly deteriorates. But this should not deter us from trying to resolve underlying tensions and, when conflict does erupt, to stop its spread and mitigate the damage it can cause." -- Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary- general. "Although conflict prevention remains the primary responsibility of member states, civil society also has a role to play. In addition, it remains imperative that the international community and the UN in particular, provide support to local or national conflict prevention mechanisms. These efforts can be executed without negating the important principles of national sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of states." -- Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa. "The challenges facing the international community are considerable. The last decade in the international life was turbulent and difficult. Its beginning was marked by the tragic terrorist attacks here in New York, on September 11th, 2001. A spectre of global terrorism has hung over the world, a spectre that terrorist organizations one day must make use of a weapon of mass destruction. Fortunately, our worst fears have not materialized. It was possible to significantly reduce the terrorist threat." -- Bronislaw Komorowski, president of Poland. "I come to this assembly to express with humility, but also with conviction, what my country has to say to the international community. And also to listen, carefully and respectfully to what the international community has to say to us. Because Chile, Mr. President, is and has always been a country that practices, defends, and promotes dialogue as the best mechanism of dispute settlement. Dialogue, which far from fearing difference and dissent, values them and thrives on them because the dialogue that Chile advocates is based on the intimate conviction that every nation, culture, tradition or creed has something to teach but also something to learn from others." -- Sebastian Pinera, president of Chile. "The concept of preventive diplomacy has since evolved in a way that it is no longer restricted to simply preempting disputes before they erupt, but also aims at preventing conflicts from escalating or from spreading." -- Michel Sleiman, president of Lebanon. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Stainless Steel Heat Exchanger Tubes , China Stainless Steel U Bend Tube for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Stainless Steel Seamless Pipes.
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