21.   Skeptics say preventive diplomacy is being oversold.

22.   The ARF is supposed to avoid military misunderstandings or a flare-up of territorial disputes through preventive diplomacy and negotiation.

23.   The ARF process is now advancing further to preventive diplomacy.

24.   The EU-proposed peace and stability charter would involve regular high-level political talks, preventive diplomacy and joint crisis management.

25.   The framework, linked to the Asean Post Ministerial Conference processes, would serve as a mechanism in confidence building and hopefully for preventive diplomacy, he said.

26.   The two-year-old ASEAN Regional Forum is supposed to avoid military misunderstandings or a flare-up of territorial disputes through preventive diplomacy and negotiation.

27.   The year-old ASEAN Regional Forum is supposed to avoid military misunderstandings or a flare-up of territorial disputes through preventive diplomacy and negotiation.

28.   Garreton demanded that the international community engage in urgent preventive diplomacy, not to strengthen the rule of long-time authoritarian ruler Mobutu Sese Seko but promote democracy.

29.   France has always favored preventive diplomacy.

30.   Goulding noted that UN member states were growing increasingly reluctant to pay for peacekeeping operations, and consequently preventive diplomacy was important.