CONFIDENCE-BUILDING The prisoner swap was one of the least contentious confidence-building measures at the peace talks in Sweden.
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That means making confidence building a part of your daily living.
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They have also agreed to confidence building measures that Washington supports.
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It is a confidence-building measure and a play for leverage.
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These are confidence-building activities - relationships that will last for a lifetime.
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The initial steps will probably be little more than confidence-building measures.
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Confidence-building measures are important and appropriate if the denuclearization process moves forward.
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It's about confidence-building, and I've seen that being translated into different industries.
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Rather, it is about confidence building — as Sarah says — at least for now.
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But the U.S. side must demand those concessions before offering confidence building measures.
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Hamilton was blazing through boss fights, his confidence building with every strike and dodge.
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The two sides have met on other occasions as well for confidence-building measures.
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They point out that these are confidence-building measures required by the UN resolution.
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Both sides could offer to take confidence-building steps as signs of good faith.
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"Its tied to confidence building," said Jessica DeCanio, head of claims training for Farmers.
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But we need confidence-building measures, frankly, and we haven't seen a lot of that.
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Behind the scenes, I think there is a lot of confidence building with our guys.
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Arms control agreements and confidence building measures between the two militaries have atrophied, said Beebe.
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This is why we must implement self-esteem and confidence-building programs in our schools.
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In times of heightened international tensions, these confidence-building measures are more important than ever.
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All say being a Cowgirl of Color is empowering, confidence building, healing and life changing.
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The app promises guided meditations, confidence-building exercises, "sleep visualizations," and tips for dealing with stress.
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Confidence-building measures — treaties, regular dialogue, joint commissions on global challenges — helped defuse one Cold War.
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Mr. Ban encouraged the warring parties to lift sieges as "a confidence-building measure" before the talks.
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IRAN'S ZARIF SAYS POSSIBLE TO AGREE ON CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES IN GULF TO ENSURE FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION
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"There's a lot of confidence-building that has to be done before that," said the US official.
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The second is adopting Cold War-era confidence building measures to further reduce the risk of war.
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Interestingly, the joint statement underscored mutual confidence-building as a way to promote denuclearization of the peninsula.
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Build confidence and goodwill locally Fourth, confidence-building measures were crucial to launching the North Korea process.
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The first step will have to be confidence-building both within Catalonia and in the rest of Spain.
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The two countries agreed to revive a consultation process for confidence-building measures, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said.
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However, experts say India and Pakistan need to take further nuclear confidence-building measures because tensions remain high.
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My vision is that schools integrate lessons of self-esteem, confidence building and character development into the curriculum.
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Discussions over confidence-building measures, which have proven instrumental in other negotiations, continue to be difficult to sustain.
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I wouldn't rule out the possibility of getting transparency-type measures, confidence building-type measures, crisis communications measures.
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Water is key to national security and can be a confidence-building measure in the world of diplomacy.
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As for attempts at confidence building, which was the theme of the meeting, the United States was unrelenting.
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The Chinese refuse to consider such a confidence-building measure, despite the growing importance of missiles to both countries.
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At best, this agreement, however briefly it holds up, can serve as some confidence-building measure between the parties.
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Puerta said "trust and confidence building" needed to be built before the two rival central banks could work together.
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The move, if it happens, will be seen as a confidence-building measure ahead of the planned Ukraine summit.
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As each party meets initial credibility tests, the confidence-building measures should gradually increase in specificity and tangible action.
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As a confidence-building measure, Pyongyang reactivated a hotline with Seoul that had been dormant for nearly two years.
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U.S. businesses were hoping a limited trade package would be a confidence-building move for a more comprehensive negotiation.
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"Priority will be given to enhancing confidence-building measures and people-to-people exchanges," a second government source said.
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He said both countries had agreed to de-escalate tensions in the Aegean Sea and proceed with confidence building measures.
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He said both countries had agreed to de-escalate tensions in the Aegean Sea and proceed with confidence-building measures.
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And it&aposs important that North Korea has given up a number of American prisoners as a confidence building measure.
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During Erdogan's visit to Athens in December, the two countries agreed to revive a consultation process for confidence-building measures.
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A revised ceasefire deal is required, but one that is designed with intrinsic confidence-building measures to make it sustainable.
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The UN's disarmament office has proposed that rivals could swap information on test flights and take other confidence-building measures.
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Announcing Special Envoy Griffiths' trip to Abu Dhabi, his office said he was working on confidence-building measures, without elaborating.
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What is needed now is confidence building and a detente between the two countries, not new sanctions and new threats.
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They were in Dushanbe at the same time to attend the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia.
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First, there is a long list of tension-reduction and confidence-building measures agreed to at the Moon-Kim summit.
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As in most negotiations, these confidence-building measures are politically risky and mostly reversible, but they can also build goodwill.
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Any eventual peace talks over Kashmir are likely to involve an increase in bilateral trade as a confidence-building measure.
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That process — of risk, failure, recovery and mastery, of more action and less thinking — is the key to confidence-building.
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Mr. Putin, eager to shake Western resolve on economic sanctions, has accommodated with confidence-building steps, like the prisoner swap.
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This included confidence-building measures such as a halt to the sieges of Syrian cities and bombing of civilians, he said.
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It is the leading non-profit organization that empowers women and girls by providing body-positive and self-confidence building tools.
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Pulling out troops was seen as a pivotal confidence-building measure that would build up the trust needed for political talks.
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The process, which aim to established a "safety-zone" as a confidence-building measure by early next year, has been stalled.
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South Korea's Moon Jae-in and North Korea's Kim Jong Un agreed to set of confidence-building measures at their summit.
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His policies — tax cuts, curtailment of immigration, reduction in regulations — and confidence-building talk are seen as driving faster economic growth.
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Since then, Ukraine and Russia have implemented some confidence-building measures, including prisoner swaps and phased troop withdrawals in designated areas.
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As part of confidence-building measures, both sides agreed to resume oil and gas exports to help shore up central bank coffers.
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Fashion is often sold as something feel good and confidence building — a way to belong and blend in within a peer-group.
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Do you have any advice on confidence building things for women and girls who don't think this is an avenue for them?
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The treaty really was little more than a confidence-building measure; in that respect, it was rather different from the INF Treaty.
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He added that the Aleppo truce was a "confidence building measure" and a first step and he hoped it would be extended.
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"This is also a confidence-building opportunity for our employees," Val Richardson, vice president of real estate at The Container Store, said.
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In other words, confidence-building measures alone can neither prevent incidents nor overcome strategic distrust — today no more than in the past.
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It's still unclear whether the two sides will be able to agree on confidence-building measures that would halt additional tariff escalation.
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Sudan's military council also agreed to release political prisoners as a confidence-building measure, special envoy Mahmoud Dirir told reporters in Khartoum.
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Sudan's Transitional Military Council also agreed to release political prisoners as a confidence-building measure, special envoy Mahmoud Dirir told reporters in Khartoum.
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Meanwhile, the confidence-building step that the North demands of America—suspending all military exercises with South Korea—should be a non-starter.
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Finally, the UN and the parties will need to leverage these confidence-building measures into a wider political agreement to end the war.
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Obama got nowhere with the Saudis on these confidence-building measures, even though he sold more arms to Saudi Arabia than his predecessors.
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Under the agreement, Russian-backed government forces and opposition groups are expected to halt fighting for a while as a confidence-building measure.
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U.N. Special Envoy Griffiths said in an earlier statement that he had discussed confidence-building measures with Yemen's foreign minister Khaled al-Yamani.
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Why it matters: China's participation in RIMPAC was seen as a confidence-building measure to improve communications between the U.S. and Chinese militaries.
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The bottom line: U.S.–Iran relations are not amenable to breakthrough by photo op; progress will require painstaking negotiations and confidence-building measures.
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And a big part of it is actually confidence building by communicating clearly where we are, what we know, what we don't know.
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S.-facilitated discussion with Taliban representatives on confidence-building, to include determining the feasibility of releasing significant numbers of prisoners on both sides.
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Giving Seoul some space to pursue confidence building measures, even though they are not likely to last beyond the Olympics, is smart diplomacy.
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And you better believe that Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness will return for more confidence-building makeovers.
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We should also remember that all the steps the regime has taken so far, while clearly signs of confidence building measures, are completely reversible.
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The United States prefers Pakistan and India to have a more stable relationship through direct military-to-military talks and other confidence-building measures.
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Given these strategic realities, the Kim-Trump talks will be a great photo opportunity and certainly lead to some feel-good, confidence-building measures.
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This is a confidence-building treaty that is particularly valuable to our European allies and particularly in a time of increasing US-Russian tensions.
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Efforts starting in 2010 sought to enact a difficult set of confidence-building measures to convince the Taliban to meet with the Afghan government.
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The South has been advocating a more traditional confidence-building approach, in which concessions by the North result in a gradual lifting of sanctions.
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"At this stage what you want to do is have confidence building and show goodwill, and I think ... were doing that," he told reporters.
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The two leaders met in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, where they were attending the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA).
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The Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia involves 26 members, including Russia and many countries from Central Asia and the Middle East.
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One such confidence-building measure was establishment of a hotline to allow U.S. and Russian officials to talk to each other during a cybersecurity crisis.
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He called for all sides to lift their sieges immediately and unconditionally "as a confidence-building gesture" ahead of peace talks scheduled for Jan. 25.
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Iran has stated it does not want war and has released a previously detained U.S. resident, both of which appear to be confidence-building measures.
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My trepidation ebbed as one confidence-building turn led to another, and I made my way down the gentle trail flanked with snow-sugared spruce.
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Before that, as a confidence building measure with Turkey, the US convinced Kurds to dismantle their defensive fortifications along the border and pull their fighters back.
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Martin Griffiths, the U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen, said in a statement that he had discussed confidence-building measures with Yemen's foreign minister Khaled al-Yamani.
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They help mitigate misunderstandings among big powers, build transparency measures through mutual verification and contribute to confidence building -- cultivating a habit of cooperation through open channels.
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The envoy is also working on securing other confidence-building steps hanging over from the peace talks, including reopening Sanaa airport and supporting the central bank.
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Moon has instead been placing an emphasis on confidence building measures first, to be followed only later by the more difficult steps of denuclearization and verification.
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Visiting U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice said confidence-building measures had reduced risks and the United States valued progress in improving military-to-military ties.
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The same point is made to far greater effect at more subtle moments, when Gumbiner imagines Berg's confidence-building steps into a new kind of living.
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One of my favorite varieties of clue is the hidden word, but they're scarce in hard cryptics (too much confidence-building spoils the solver, I guess).
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Last week, UN aid convoys reached five towns with humanitarian supplies, in what was billed as a confidence building measure ahead of a cessation of hostilities.
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In an interview with The Associated Press, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said he considered a prisoner exchange an important confidence-building measure.
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We have much to learn from confidence-building measures adopted during the Cold War to diminish risks of nuclear annihilation from needless provocation and accidental war.
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Zelenskiy has prioritized ending the war in Donbass but while he has implemented some confidence-building measures with Russia, including prisoner swaps, the conflict simmers on.
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Before boarding a Kuwaiti plane, one delegate praised him for delivering on confidence-building measures like the evacuation of wounded fighters and a prisoner swap deal.
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"The main issue is a question of confidence-building so that we can move toward the objective of restoring Ukraine's sovereignty," said a French diplomatic source.
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The 21st-ranked Cavaliers have sandwiched triumphs over North Carolina State and Pittsburgh around a confidence-building 53-43 victory against ACC regular-season champ North Carolina.
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Hijab said confidence-building measures were needed to create an atmosphere for political transition talks which should be held in Geneva and sponsored by the United Nations.
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These efforts explicitly take historic nuclear arms talks as a model, reviving such half-forgotten cold-war phrases as "confidence-building measures" and "no first use" pledges.
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Today, that confidence-building cushion is dangerously "bone-on-bone" and must be rejuvenated before the whole process collapses and we enter an all-out arms race.
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Diplomats are expected to shuttle between the warring parties to discuss other confidence-building steps and the formation of a transitional governing body, a U.N. source said.
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"I think we're going to need confidence building measures here, of an order where the market again has some confidence about the sustainability of growth," said O'Neill.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday progress had been made on confidence-building measures related to a territorial dispute between Moscow and Tokyo.
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She credits not only her mother, but also a Chicago-based project, Girls in the Game, which has body-positive, confidence-building programs, including single-sex athletics.
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They scored seven runs, a total greater than the sum of their runs in their four previous games, and a confidence-building win seemed within their grasp.
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South and North Korea agreed to carry out disarmament in a phased manner, as military tension is alleviated and substantial progress is made in military confidence-building.
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"It seems Duterte has secured a provisional joint fishing arrangement with Beijing as part of a package of confidence-building measures to defuse maritime tensions," he said.
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S. praises confidence-building measures with Chinese military He and the friend opened the trunk of the taxi, and began transferring the cargo into the buyer's vehicle.
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Given that full implementation will take time, the U.S. should also ask for "confidence building" measures from China that would be targeted, easily accomplishable and immediately implemented.
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So far, political commitments by Secretary of State John Kerry and his Western counterparts not to pursue the banks have not had their intended confidence-building effect.
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Informal intra-Afghan dialogues, such as the one convened in Doha in July 2019, should continue and deepen, while the other confidence-building steps are under way.
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The aborted convoy didn't carry food beyond milk for infants, and aid workers characterized it as a confidence-building measure that would hopefully lead to future deliveries.
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"And they owe us quite a bit in terms of confidence-building measures," he says, to reciprocate for Trump's suspension of joint military exercises with South Korea.
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We hope that achieving progress on confidence-building measures and reaching an agreement on a political framework will be the manifestation of such a spirit of compromise.
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It involves Ukraine surrendering some of its sovereignty over Russia-occupied provinces and for a sequence of confidence-building measures to ensure free elections in those provinces.
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The confidence-building measures were aimed as much at convincing Mr. Trump of the Israelis' commitment to seek an agreement as they were intended for the Palestinians.
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Zelenskiy has also prioritized ending the war in Donbass but while he has implemented some confidence-building measures with Russia, including prisoner swaps, the conflict simmers on.
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In a replay of his dad's maneuvers in the 1990's, Kim could accept improved economic relations and food aid in return for minor confidence building measures.
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But it would be taken as a confidence-building step by Washington and its allies as they enter negotiations with North Korea over implementing the summit agreement.
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He urged the warring parties to resume consultations on a framework for political talks and confidence-building measures such as supporting the central bank and a prisoner swap.
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The confidence-building measure is a milestone for the historically tense relationship — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently compared the corridor with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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The flights are intended to be confidence-building measures and are subject to provisions for openness and transparency on the information being collected via cameras and other sensors.
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Griffiths wants agreement on confidence-building steps and a transitional governing body ahead of political negotiations to end the conflict, which has killed tens of thousands of people.
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Although initial expectations were of a trilateral meeting between Trump, Netanyahu and Abbas, those expectations were dramatically scaled back, replaced with confidence-building measures between the two sides.
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The expectation for immediate, tangible results may be realized; or, the Hanoi summit may be another benchmark in a longer-term, confidence-building road toward North Korea's denuclearization.
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"We will stay firm on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," he said at the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Beijing in April.
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He urged the warring parties to resume consultations on a framework for political talks and confidence-building measures such as supporting the central bank and a prisoner swap.
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But, going forward, geopolitical analysts said a realistic goal is for both parties to agree to initial confidence-building measures that will narrow the massive mistrust between them.
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As a confidence-building measure, the United States conditioned the finalizing of the deal on a week of reduced violence in the days leading up to the signing.
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Houthis and Saudi officials have stressed that the talks in Sweden, if they start, will not involve negotiations to end the war, focusing instead on confidence-building measures.
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The Taliban demand for the release of 6003,000 prisoners as a confidence-building measure has been the most contentious part of the U.S.-Taliban deal signed in February.
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"The prisoner exchange will be one of the first confidence-building measures, so it will remain a very critical step that we need to push forward," he added.
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Craig Allen, president of the US-China Business Council, viewed the move by the Americans as a "confidence-building mechanism" even as further details remain to be seen.
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That is an excellent point of departure in a difficult confidence building process that should lead to the common objective of a nuclear-free and peaceful Korean Peninsula.
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We insisted that the starting point should be full Iranian compliance with all UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, and only then should confidence-building measures come into play.
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This crucial confidence-building measure opened the door to further detente between the superpowers and ushered in three decades in which worries of global nuclear war all but vanished.
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Although Nashville has had nothing for which to play, it picked up a confidence-building win Tuesday with a 4-3 victory that eliminated visiting Colorado for playoff contention.
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"The State Counsellor explained that the confidence building between the communities requires patience and time, and the United Nations needs to support in those efforts," said the Facebook post.
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The two sides agreed to some confidence-building measures, such as the exchange of thousands of prisoners and the reopening of the airport in Sana'a, the Houthi-controlled capital.
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She also stopped by the Alperton Community School to talk with teachers, take part in the students' Random Acts of Kindness Club and view a confidence-building art class.
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The Saudi-backed government said on Thursday it was ready to work on confidence-building measures under U.N.-led peace efforts to end the more than three-year war.
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The transfer is seen as a major confidence-building measure between the US and North Korea, and "it would be bad" if it does not happen, the official said.
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And while Monday's images may amount to a "confidence building measure" by the North Koreans, it appears that they expect the US to reciprocate if talks are to continue.
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The training includes basic confidence-building exercises, filling their lungs to scream If they sense trouble, and maneuvers for specific assaults in buses or as they walk along streets.
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As a confidence-building measure in the preparations for the cease-fire, Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that it had released 224 Yemeni prisoners in return for nine Saudis.
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Rendi-Wagner said Kurz had not taken the confidence-building steps she and her party had called for after Kurz replaced outgoing FPO ministers with civil servants last week.
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Bola Tinubu, the national leader of Mr. Buhari's party, the All Progressives Congress, was recently appointed by Mr. Buhari to lead reconciliation and confidence-building efforts among party members.
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"I urge the parties to continue the momentum of confidence-building until all detainees are reunited with their loved ones," United Nations Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths said on Twitter.
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This means preparing to apply more pressure on Pakistan and the Taliban with a simple approach, especially in response to their token confidence-building gestures: Don't trust, and verify.
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Rouhani did not refer to this week's tanker incident in his speech to the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia, behind held in the Tajik capital Dushanbe.
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"Deutsche Telekom takes the global debate on the security of network equipment from Chinese providers very seriously," the company said in a statement that spelled out three confidence-building measures.
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What was meant to be a confidence-building measure, between Russia and the United States as much as between the groups in Syria, instead became a new source of acrimony.
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But one of the senior administration officials strongly rebutted any suggestion that the administration would ease some sanctions as confidence building, or in return for smaller steps by North Korea.
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Mr. Kim promised these confidence-building steps as he has tried to improve ties with Washington ahead of his planned summit meeting with President Trump in Singapore on June 12.
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The defeat was particularly disappointing for Djokovic after he had a confidence-building start to the Madrid tournament, beating Kei Nishikori in straight sets in the first round on Monday.
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Technical expert teams have long guided negotiations on contentious issues such as strategic nuclear force levels, conventional forces, intermediate nuclear forces, confidence building measures, and other matters between rival powers.
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"One important confidence building measure ... the release of abductees and detainees ... in my opinion it hasn't been at the scale we really need to send a proper message," Pedersen said.
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Also this month, Vietnam formally accused China of violating its sovereignty, as well as a recent confidence-building pact, after Beijing landed a plane on an artificial island built by China.
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Syrian opposition leaders told de Mistura that Damascus must take confidence-building steps including a prisoner release and a halt to attacks on civilian areas before they will go to negotiations.
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Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski and Jonathan Van Ness will return for more confidence-building makeovers for the second season of Queer Eye, premiering June 15 on Netflix.
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The 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the JCPOA, had been "crafted as a confidence-building measure to alleviate any concerns, real or concocted, over the nature of our program", he said.
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"We are also urging the Syrian authorities to allow us a presence in the areas where people return because this could be a confidence-building measure," Grandi told a news conference.
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"We are also urging the Syrian authorities to allow us a presence in the areas where people return because this could be a confidence-building measure," Grandi told a news conference.
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European diplomats, seeking to persuade George W. Bush's administration to give diplomacy a chance, asked us for a temporary, voluntary freeze on uranium-enrichment-related activities as a confidence-building measure.
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The ministers also discussed their border and agreed to implement "confidence building measures" to ensure the maintenance of peace, including the early operationalisation of a hotline between their armed forces, India said.
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Seeking to reinvigorate peace efforts, U.N. special envoy Martin Griffiths secured some confidence-building measures, including the evacuation of Houthi wounded, to help persuade the movement to attend the talks in Sweden.
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The Sweden talks aim to secure confidence-building steps to pave the way for a political process to end nearly four years of war that have killed tens of thousands of people.
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The Iran-aligned Houthi movement and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government are to free prisoners simultaneously next month as part of confidence-building measures agreed at United Nations peace talks in Sweden.
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The Foreign Secretary had constructive discussions on pathways to achieve de-escalation and reduce tensions, and was clear that both sides would need to play their part in the confidence-building measures.
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The detainee release is a welcome sign that the Afghan government and the Taliban are interested in continuing efforts toward peace, and it signals hope for a fresh approach to confidence-building.
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Were China to take these steps, the potential is there for it to contribute to a stable international order founded on transparent confidence-building measures, rather than arms races and nuclear competition.
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For these complex measures to come to fruition, the Syrian government must accept the inevitability of reforms and implement confidence-building measures, including the release of detainees and accountability for their treatment.
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In 2014, we agreed on military confidence-building measures, cooperation to fight Ebola, extended visa validity and a historic United States-China deal on climate change, which led to the Paris Agreement.
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And while the Saudis are confident they can restore production in the near term, confidence building measures are still needed to demonstrate to nervous nations that the market is stable, and resilient.
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In theory sports diplomacy could boost greater cooperation and contribute to confidence building measures, but in reality participation in international sporting events often also highlights the extreme differences between the two Koreas.
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Later when asked what those confidence building measures could be, Biegun confirmed that the US is looking to open a liaison office in North Korea in order to provide support to inspectors.
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The company instead referred back to earlier "confidence-building measures" including a commitment to fix all vehicles affected by this autumn, saying that updating the software would not detract from the car's performance.
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Rather than feeling ashamed or hiding stomach jiggles, Movemeant, a confidence-building organization that teaches middle school girls to embrace their bodies, wants women to show off their stomachs while they work out.
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Prior to Turkey's offensive last week, as a confidence building measure with the country, the US convinced the Syrian Kurds to dismantle their defensive fortifications along the border and pull their fighters back.
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In a telephone interview after his briefing to the Security Council, Mr. de Mistura insisted that the warring sides needed confidence-building measures before they could broach the idea of a broader truce.
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Third, it required time to establish confidence building measures -- especially in Iran and the United States -- and a focus mainly on the technical aspects rather than the political differences to ease this process.
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"What is often missed is that the from what I've seen, most of AIIB investments have been done on a multilateral basis... that is deliberate, that is a confidence building measure," said Chamorro.
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Kim pledged in a first summit with Trump in Singapore in June to work toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and the two sides agreed that mutual confidence building steps could promote that.
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This left many at-risk youth displaced with no positive outlet to hone skills essential to adolescent development like confidence building, feelings of unity and belonging, and of course a place to exercise.
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Officials from the White House, the State Department and FBI will attend the meetings, which will focus on a review of several cybersecurity "confidence-building" agreements signed in 2013 by the two governments.
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The agreement, the first significant breakthrough in peace efforts in five years, was part of confidence-building measures intended to pave the way for a wider truce and a framework for political negotiations.
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After the selling over the last few days, there is a "bit of bounce back based on confidence-building measures by the finance minister," said Alok Ranjan, head of research at Way13Wealth Securities.
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Officials from the White House, the State Department and FBI will attend the meetings, which will focus on a review of several cybersecurity "confidence-building" agreements signed in 2628 by the two governments.
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Past confidence-building measures with the Taliban have been divisive, including the 2014 prisoner transfers that brought home Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, but such steps can help bridge the gap to substantive peace talks.
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Beijing officials have declared their outbreak "basically curbed," and reported only 24 new cases on Wednesday, a day after Premier Xi Jinping made his first visit to Wuhan as a confidence-building measure.
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"Today's signing aims at the implementation of the peace confidence building that came in the constitutional declaration," said Yasir Arman, the deputy chairman of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army-North (SPLM-North).
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The boys, who sported crisp haircuts, had gained an average of 3 kg (6.6 lb) each since the rescue, and rain through confidence-building exercises ahead of Wednesday's event, the hospital director said.
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Before the fate of that temporary truce is determined, a series of humanitarian convoys have managed to reach several besieged areas in what has been billed as a confidence-building measure ahead of Saturday.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's junta and a Malay Muslim separatist faction have blamed each other for a delay in setting up a 'safety zone' as a confidence-building measure towards ending a decades-old insurgency.
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The effectiveness of hypnotherapy seems to be a combination of confidence building, clear focus on personal goals for change, and the ability to work with, and unlock, the unknown powers of the human brain.
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Talks in Astana, convened by Russia, Turkey and Iran, would be complementary and deal with "maintenance of the ceasefire, immediate confidence-building measures and operational counter-terrorism issuees", he told a final press conference.
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Under an accord between the United States and the Islamist Taliban signed on Saturday, the two sides are committed to working toward the release of combat and political prisoners as a confidence-building measure.
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"We have been suggesting to the Gulf countries to think about collective security mechanisms... starting with confidence building measures and inviting each other to military exercises," Lavrov told a security conference in New Delhi.
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Under the accord, the United States and the Taliban are committed to work expeditiously to release combat and political prisoners as a confidence-building measure, with the coordination and approval of all relevant sides.
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The twice Grand Slam champion will meet former finalist Simona Halep on Thursday for a place in the title match after another confidence-building performance at Melbourne Park on a sunbathed Rod Laver Arena.
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It said it had already taken enough confidence-building steps, such as the test moratorium, the shutting down of its underground nuclear test site and its return of American remains from the Korean War.
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"The alliance is being undercut for the sake of confidence-building with the North, while there is little progress on the nuclear issue, which is the root cause of the longstanding tensions," Baek said.
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Lee Sang-min, a spokesman for South Korea's Unification Ministry that handles inter-Korean ties, urged the North to stop the tests and explore confidence-building measures such as returning to a joint military committee.
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Yemen's Houthi movement and the Saudi-backed government on Tuesday exchanged lists of some 15,000 prisoners for a swap agreed as a confidence-building measure at the start of U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Sweden.
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But even if the Taliban are willing to join the peace process, said the senior diplomat, a long process of confidence building and pre-talks lies ahead before any actual, face-to-face peace negotiations.
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Modi and Xi will be aiming to move forward on a set of confidence-building measures during the informal summit in Mamallapuram, a short distance from Chennai, an Indian source briefed on the discussions said.
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United Nations Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths in the past week condemned the uptick in troop movements, air strikes, and missile and drone attacks, saying they jeopardise progress being made on de-escalation and confidence building.
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United Nations Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths in the past week condemned the uptick in troop movements, air strikes, and missile and drone attacks, saying they jeopardise progress being made on de-escalation and confidence building.
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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani will lay out a proposal this week for a "Coalition for Hope" with confidence-building and non-aggression measures but also an effort to exclude foreign forces from the Persian Gulf.
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Situation in Syria Prior to Turkey's offensive last week, as a confidence building measure with the country, the US convinced the Syrian Kurds to dismantle their defensive fortifications along the border and pull their fighters back.
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At the beginning of January, Vietnam formally accused China of violating its sovereignty, as well as a recent confidence-building pact, after Beijing landed a plane on one of the artificial islands built by the Chinese.
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Riad Hijab, general coordinator for the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), said confidence-building measures were needed to create an atmosphere for political transition talks which should be held in Geneva and sponsored by the United Nations.
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They also called for the release of tens of thousands of detainees languishing in government jails, including women and children, as part of confidence-building measures in the Geneva talks between the Syrian government and opposition.
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They must all take a breath and establish a set of confidence-building measures that will create a kernel of trust upon which to draw down from this situation, learn from it and build upon it.
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Yemen Peace Talks Begin With Agreement to Free 5,000 Prisoners: The deal between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-led coalition is the first of several confidence-building measures that will be required to end the conflict.
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Dove kicked the project off in Los Angeles with a confidence-building summit which featured Rhimes as the keynote speaker, as well as a panel with the outspoken songstress SZA, Transgender Rights Acvitist Jazz Jennings and more.
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Kirillov's group's philosophy involves a mix of pick-up artistry in the mold of The Game, self-help–style confidence building, and orgasm tips that sound like they could have been pulled from the pages of Cosmopolitan.
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Concrete measures and confidence-building acts by North Korea: It could downsize its enormous army, pull back from its offensive positioning near the demilitarized zone, get rid of the artillery it trains on Seoul, allow joint inspections.
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Tía María only has a chance of going ahead if local peoples' concerns are addressed "with concrete confidence-building measures" such as the government building a reservoir to ease water shortages, says Yamila Osorio, the regional governor.
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The swap was one of the least contentious confidence-building measures at last month's U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Sweden, held amid Western pressure to end the conflict that has left 15.9 million people facing severe hunger.
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The coalition said in a statement it had agreed on the evacuation "for humanitarian considerations and as part of confidence-building measures" ahead of the talks, which are also due to focus on a transitional governing body.
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Ukraine and Russian-backed separatist rebels have agreed to phased troop withdrawals as a confidence building measure that could pave the way for a four-way summit between Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany on the Donbass conflict.
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Both the Sohae dismantlement and return of Korean War remains (if testing proves they are American) may be confidence-building measures, but they may also be used to push you for reciprocal moves by the United States.
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Daniel H. Rosen, a partner at the research firm Rhodium Group, said that given ZTE's behavior, it would have "required an extraordinary degree of confidence building" between the United States and China to avoid the current situation.
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And while concrete results aren't widely expected, a realistic goal is for both parties to agree to initial confidence-building measures that will narrow the massive trust deficit that currently exists between them, according to geopolitical analysts.
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She was handed over to separatist fighters in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine in a mass prisoner exchange, one of a number of confidence-building measures agreed by Ukraine and Russia to end the simmering conflict.
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"Instead of winding up the rhetoric and threatening retaliatory measures, both Moscow and Washington need to engage in diplomacy and confidence building measures, together with a gradual phased, balanced and monitored reduction in their weapons," she added.
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The ceasefire has broadly held although sporadic clashes continued as the United Nations struggled to implement a troop withdrawal, a confidence-building measure meant to clear the way for a broader peace settlement after four years of war.
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The fact that the confidence-building has taken years isn't seen as a failure by those at OCD-DRU, but rather as an important lesson for future relocations of indigenous communities: It's going to take time and patience.
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Swedish authorities cordoned off the venue and several emergency vehicles could be seen stationed outside the castle ahead of the talks, which will focus on agreeing other confidence-building steps and the formation of a transitional governing body.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Flights carrying patients needing urgent medical attention began from the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, a long-sought confidence-building measure in diplomatic efforts to end the five-year war.
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If America and Russia are ready to knock heads together, there is more progress establishing what diplomats call "confidence-building measures" and, above all, if the partial ceasefire holds, something better than the current horrors could yet emerge.
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The agreement, the first significant breakthrough in peace efforts in five years, was part of confidence-building measures discussed at peace talks that aim to pave the way for a wider truce and a framework for political negotiations.
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The world's top oil exporter is likely to keep its output relatively stable in coming months in what one source called "a confidence-building exercise" with Iran and non-OPEC producers - in case a joint deal is needed.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine plans more troop withdrawals in the eastern Donbass region as a confidence building measure to help pave the way for four-way peace talks with Russia, France and Germany, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday.
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"Moon Jae-in is trying to implement balanced diplomacy, but unless there is a strong trust and confidence-building, the approach might endanger Korea's alliance with the US," said Lee Myon-woo of the Sejong Institute think-tank.
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"These proposals would act as a confidence-building mechanism between the parties, with a view to a durable cessation of hostilities as a step towards the resumption of peace talks under U.N. leadership," the Security Council statement said.
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He said there were no illusions the process would be easy, but that there were signs of constructive talks and that Washington wants concrete results from the meetings focused on confidence-building measures and a transitional governing body.
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But that peace should come in step-by-step, confidence-building measures, and it must take into account the gains Afghanistan has made alongside the bloodshed the Afghan government and the US and NATO allies seek to end.
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The release of the prisoners is part of a confidence-building measure to pave the way for the opening of direct talks between the government and the insurgents, after talks with both sides and the United States individually.
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The visit comes after a recent confidence-building trip by the Turkish finance minister, Berat Albayrak — Mr. Erdogan's son-in-law and close adviser — who sent the right messages about fiscal stability, raising interest rates and curbing expenditure.
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Since early August, the American and Turkish militaries have been working together on a series of confidence-building measures — including joint reconnaissance flights and ground patrols — in a 75-mile-long strip of that 300-mile border area.
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Having somebody hand over what they see as their only assured way of staying safe from attack is an argument that can only be won by force or by long discussions leading to equally lengthy confidence-building measures.
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On Friday, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the United States would seek to build trust with North Korea through confidence building measures, but deferred to diplomats questions about the future U.S. military presence under any peace treaty.
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The ceasefire has broadly held, although sporadic clashes continued as the United Nations struggled to implement the withdrawal of troops, a confidence-building measure meant to clear the way for a broader peace settlement after four years of war.
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The UN special envoy is seeking to introduce a set of confidence-building measures at the talks in Rimbo, a town around 30 miles north of the Swedish capital Stockholm, that will eventually pave the way for future negotiations.
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We need to take steps toward this that are confidence building measures, so we don't become a state in an all-out shoot-out, which we could become readily if government authorities were flying in and taking weapons away.
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That early surge left Iowa atop the Big Ten standings, but the Hawkeyes quickly fell back to the pack by dropping five of their next six before picking up a confidence-building 333-61 win at Michigan on Saturday.
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New sanctions against Moscow passed in Congress on Thursday, followed by the Kremlin's retaliatory seizure of two US buildings in Russia on Friday, have all but scuttled his administration's efforts at achieving even the most basic confidence-building measures.
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The conference took place on the same day as Ukrainian soldiers and rebel forces began a troop withdrawal in a town on the frontline, a confidence-building measure ahead of peace talks Ukraine hopes will take place next month.
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It has initiated a dialogue aimed at lowering military and political risks, which Greminger said could lead to some confidence-building measures in 12-18 months, with an eye to working on conventional arms reduction in 3-5 years.
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Our side wasn't trying to do much, just some increased transparency and some confidence-building measures to prevent or contain incidents along the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, the most heavily fortified patch of land on the planet.
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After more than 100 paratroopers from Serbian elite brigades and the U.S. Army 173rd Airborne Brigade landed on a grassy runway of a small airport near Belgrade, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic dubbed the drill part of confidence-building activities.
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Up to now, North Korea has demanded almost daily that the United States join North and South Korea in declaring an end to the Korean War as an initial confidence-building concession from Washington before taking steps to denuclearize.
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As a confidence-building measure, since last Saturday the Taliban have agreed to implement a "reduction in violence" in Afghanistan that will help pave the way for the signing of the formal US-Taliban deal slated for February 29.
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Confidence building is the name of the game here, and it is pretty inspiring to watch once-timid campers take ownership of new skills, like how to portage a canoe or shoot an arrow dead center into a target.
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His goal was to ensure existing military confidence building measures would remain in place, especially in the demilitarized zone between North Korea and South Korea, with the aim of helping him convince Trump to ease sanctions on the regime.
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The apparent swap comes as Yemen's warring parties are still hammering out details of a larger prisoner exchange that they agreed last month as a confidence-building gesture at the first major peace talks of the nearly four-year-old war.
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His Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov said earlier after talks in Moscow with Kono that progress had been made on confidence-building measures related to the islands, known is Russia as the Kurile islands and in Japan as the Northern Territories.
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The bottom line: Lifting international (especially UN) sanctions on at least some of its leadership has always been high on the Taliban's list of "confidence building measures" needed to start peace negotiations with the U.S. and, eventually, the Afghan government.
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"What we want in terms of stability are regular interactions at senior levels so we have a good understanding of one another's intentions, that we have confidence-building measures that will help us prevent an unintended accident or incident," Schriver said.
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This is important -- and tragic -- because besides reducing and regulating dangerous weapons and warheads, these treaties and conventions, built over decades of hard negotiation, were a key confidence-building measure during the Cold War and breakup of the Soviet Union.
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"We need to discover ... what the parties are prepared to do and what they are prepared to prioritize, both in terms of substance, which will come in a later round, and in terms of these confidence building measures," he said.
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Since he promised to denuclearize in early March 2018, Kim has taken some confidence building measures, but he has not surrendered a single nuclear weapon, and he has apparently not even suspended production at a single nuclear weapon production facility.
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"We expect the government will secure a momentum to push its ongoing policies in general, including the denuclearization of North Korea and inter-Korean military confidence building," Defense Ministry spokeswoman Choi Hyun-soo told reporters in a press briefing Tuesday.
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The United Nations brokered the truce deal as part of confidence-building measures at peace talks last week in Sweden to avert a full-scale assault on the port that is vital for urgent aid supplies for millions facing starvation.
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The deal to free prisoners simultaneously was part of confidence-building measures that included a plan to withdraw from the contested port city of Hodeidah, a lifeline for millions facing famine, and place it under the control of an interim entity.
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"Since these facilities are believed to have played an important role in the development of technologies for the North's intercontinental ballistic missile program, these efforts represent a significant confidence-building measure on the part of North Korea," Mr. Bermudez said.
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The Taliban have demanded the release of the prisoners as a confidence-building measure to pave the way for the opening of direct talks between the government and the insurgents after talks with the both sides and the United States individually.
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After eight years of confidence-building initiatives, the Obama administration established a defense relationship of trust, and cooperation expanded beyond counternarcotics and counterterrorism to broader strategic engagement including coordinated efforts in Central America, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and global peacekeeping.
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The prisoner exchange, said to involve at least 2383,000 detainees, is the first of several confidence-building measures intended to draw the Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led coalition that supports President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi into more substantive negotiations.
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North Korea has termed these demands "gangster-like," has asked that the United States issue an end-of-war declaration as a confidence-building measure, and has insisted that economic sanctions be lifted reciprocally as Pyongyang pares back its weapons programs.
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"Factions of the opposition have an historic opportunity to go to Geneva and propose serious, practical ways to implement a ceasefire, humanitarian access and other confidence-building measures, and they should do so without preconditions," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
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The prisoner swap could be a confidence-building measure that both sides leverage to jump start talks on other issues -- like Iran's nuclear program -- or the swap could just be a mutually beneficial, but isolated, positive moment for both countries.
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Additionally, confidence-building measures between the SDF and the government in Ankara could go a long way in maintaining the status quo until a better solution is devised for the situation at al-Hol and other facilities managed by the SDF.
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The talks will be held in a renovated castle outside Stockholm to discuss further confidence-building steps and a transitional governing body, as the U.S. Senate is set to consider a resolution to end support for the coalition in the war.
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"Just as our top leaders work towards building a strong working relationship and understanding, we through confidence-building measures like this DME must also at our level build a strong understanding of each other," he added, referring to Disaster Management Exchange.
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British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday said prospects for talks to end Yemen's 3-1/2-year-old war were "more real" after Saudi Arabia confirmed to him its willingness to evacuate 50 wounded Houthi fighters as a confidence-building measure.
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Kim had pledged not to fire long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles, so the launch doesn't violate the letter of his agreement with Trump, but it does violate an understanding Pyongyang made with Seoul to stop firing missiles as a confidence building measure.
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SHANGHAI, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A draft of the G20 communique seen by Reuters on Saturday says that monetary policy alone cannot bring balanced growth, as global finance leaders meet in Shanghai to try to agree on confidence-building measures for the world economy.
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Pentagon: They have our attention "We have made progress reducing risk between our operational forces and those of the People's Republic of China by improved dialogue at multiple levels under the bilateral Confidence Building Measures and the Military Maritime Consultative Agreement," Capt.
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The Houthis rejected the proposal floated at U.N-sponsored peace talks in Sweden that are aimed at cementing confidence-building measures that could lead to a ceasefire to halt air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition and Houthi missile attacks on Saudi cities.
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"You also have to implement confidence-building measures as the U.S. did in Europe," Klingner said, mentioning steps like advance notice of large-scale military exercises and reducing the number of North Korean forces near the demilitarized zone dividing the two Koreas.
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U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and his counterpart Song Young-moo also agreed to explore additional confidence-building measures while North Korea continues dialogue "in good faith," according to a joint statement released by Seoul's defense ministry after their talks in Seoul.
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Spurred by the bloodshed and diplomatic stalemate, the "Quartet" of sponsors of Middle East peace negotiations - the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia - were expected to issue a report before the weekend recommending "confidence-building steps" toward a two-state solution.
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It became the first post-Soviet chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, launched Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), and this year beat Thailand to join the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member.
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U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis and his counterpart Song Young-moo also agreed to explore additional confidence-building measures while North Korea continues dialogue "in good faith," according to a joint statement released by Seoul's defence ministry after their talks in Seoul.
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"This is what we would call at the State Department a CBM -- a confidence building measure -- obviously baked into the plan to agree to have Trump sit down with Kim Jong Un," said John Kirby, a former State Department spokesman and CNN contributor.
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"The more frontloaded (the debt measures) can be, the more automatic they can be or the less conditional they can be, the more they can contribute to a more confidence-building exercise between Greece and the capital markets," the French economist said.
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"This meeting is not a restart of the Bilateral Presidential Commission working group, but it is in our interest to discuss cybersecurity issues with Russia, including to review the 2013 Bilateral U.S.-Russia Cyber [confidence-building measures]," said one senior U.S. official.
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The truce should be declared to mark the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, U.N. Libya envoy Ghassan Salame told the Security Council, and be accompanied by confidence-building moves like an exchange of prisoners and remains and release of those arbitrarily detained.
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Later, after a series of confidence-building trades, the Arab states would pressure the Palestinians to accept a full deal with the Israelis—one that was likely to be substantially less advantageous to the Palestinians than what they had rejected in previous negotiations.
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"This meeting is not a restart of the Bilateral Presidential Commission working group, but it is in our interest to discuss cybersecurity issues with Russia, including to review the 22019 Bilateral U.S.-Russia Cyber [confidence-building measures]," said one senior U.S. official.
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In an apparent gain for Syria's government, which had lobbied to put "terrorism" on the agenda, de Mistura said future rounds of Geneva talks would tackle "issues related to strategies of counter-terrorism, security governance and also medium-term confidence-building measures".
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RIMBO, Sweden (Reuters) - Yemen's warring parties agreed on Wednesday to reopen the airport in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa for domestic flights, one of the confidence-building steps under discussion at U.N.-led peace talks in Sweden, sources familiar with the talks said.
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Mr. Chung said Mr. Kim brought up a series of confidence-building measures his country has taken this year, such as a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests, demolishing his country's only nuclear test site and dismantling a missile engine-test facility.
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But analysts say creating such a rail link would be an enormous task, requiring extensive confidence-building talks between the North and South and billions of dollars to renovate the North's decrepit rail system, not to mention the lifting of international sanctions.
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"Since these facilities are believed to have played an important role in the development of technologies for the North's intercontinental ballistic missile program, these efforts represent a significant confidence-building measure on the part of North Korea," it said in a report.
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MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said a planned troop withdrawal in the eastern town of Zolote would start on Tuesday, a confidence-building measure ahead of peace talks that he hopes will take place at the end of November.
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Most recently, the US and Russia tussled over Russia's latest iteration of its Open Skies aircraft, which had newly upgraded cameras (including infrared) aboard, and which Washington said appeared to cross the line from "confidence building" monitoring equipment to outright intelligence-gathering.
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TALLINN (Reuters) - Younes Belhanda and Hakim Ziyech scored in the first half to ensure Morocco continued to show good form and finished their World Cup preparations with a confidence-building 3-1 away win over Estonia in a friendly international on Saturday.
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"We urge concentrating on (the) elaboration and implementation of specific additional confidence building measures in order to secure the cyber security and not to waste breath with unfounded accusations without any fact," Sergei Lavrov told a meeting of foreign ministers from OSCE countries.
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A 38 North report said it was a first step toward fulfilling a pledge made at the summit and a significant confidence-building step amid growing questions about North Korea's willingness to give up a nuclear weapons program that threatens the United States.
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Related: How the UK Secretly Helped Direct Lethal US Drone Strikes in Yemen The United Nations, which is involved in efforts to end the conflict, hopes the current cessation in hostilities will lead to a more concrete, formal ceasefire with confidence-building measures.
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The warring parties are expected to convene in Sweden as early as Wednesday to discuss a framework for peace, including confidence-building measures and a transitional governing body, as the U.S. Senate is set to consider a resolution to end support for the war.
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DUBAI, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Flights carrying patients in need of urgent medical attention will begin to fly from the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, aid and diplomatic sources said, a long-sought confidence-building measure in diplomatic efforts to end the five-year war.
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In the end, however, Kerry's acumen wasn't enough — the Israelis slow-walked the release of Palestinian prisoners that they agreed to as a confidence-building measure, Abbas negotiated a unity government with Hamas and both sides walked away more bitter than they ever were before.
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Even as other countries have urged caution, dialogue and reciprocal confidence-building measures, Trump has belittled the North Korean leader as "rocket man," dismissed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's efforts to broker a diplomatic solution, and hinted that he is ready to take military action.
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"China seems unable or unwilling to announce major liberalizations that could be termed 'confidence building measures' or 'down payments' on expected near-term reforms," Craig Allen, president of the Washington-based U.S.-China Business Council, said in a letter to members over the weekend.
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The two successfully worked on confidence-building measures that focused on having the Taliban end attacks on schools and government officials and on having the government work on releasing Taliban prisoners and removing Taliban leaders from the sanctions list, Afghan officials and Western diplomats confirm.
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"We want the U.N. to be firmer in bringing the other party to the negotiations", Yemeni Foreign Minister Khaled al-Yamani told a press conference before leaving the Swiss city after three days of talks with Griffiths on confidence-building measures including prisoner releases.
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A six-member delegation of junior ministers and a senior security official will hold preliminary talks with some Taliban leaders in Qatar's capital, Doha, two senior government officials in Kabul said, adding that the meeting was a crucial confidence-building mechanism between the warring sides.
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The United States and its allies should consider a range of confidence-building measures with Turkey, such as border security cooperation, buffer zone extension, intelligence sharing, and interdiction vis-à-vis Kurdistan Workers Party financing and operations in order to further U.S. stabilization goals.
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RIMBO, Sweden/ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen's warring parties agreed on Wednesday to reopen Sanaa airport in the Houthi-held capital and resume oil and gas exports, sources said, as Western nations pressed them to accept confidence-building steps before the end of U.N.-led peace talks in Sweden.
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"This meeting is not a restart of the Bilateral Presidential Commission working group (suspended in 2014 after Ukraine) but it is in our interest to discuss cybersecurity issues with Russia, including to review the 2013 Bilateral U.S.-Russia Cyber (confidence-building measures)," said the senior U.S. official.
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"There needs to be a set of macroeconomic measures, monetary and fiscal policy to support the economy and some confidence-building measures in terms of economic reforms," said Eswar Prasad, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Cornell University professor, on "Power Lunch" on Friday.
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The plans, presented by U.N. Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed during a regional tour last week, included confidence building measures such as turning over the Red Sea port of Hodeidah to a neutral party, opening Sanaa airport for civilian traffic and paying civil servants' salaries.
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RIMBO, Sweden (Reuters) - Yemen's warring parties held the first direct talks in U.N.-led peace efforts in Sweden on Sunday to iron out a prisoner swap, one of several confidence-building measures intended to help launch a political process to end nearly four years of conflict.
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"It will be important to implement concrete confidence building measures in support of the upcoming intra-Syrian political talks scheduled to start at the end of January: an end to attacks on civilians, to aerial bombardments and sieges of civilian areas," they said in the EU statement.
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South Korea, in an effort to smooth out the underlying bumps between the United States and North Korea — and consequently concretize its vision of a peaceful, prosperous Korean Peninsula — will continue to insert enhanced inter-Korean cooperation as a utile confidence-building solvent for progress on denuclearization.
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"Since these facilities are believed to have played an important role in the development of technologies for the North's intercontinental ballistic missile program, these efforts represent a significant confidence building measure on the part of North Korea," analyst Joseph Bermudez wrote in the 38 North report.
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The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, was also aboard the Kuwaiti airliner that left Sana, the capital, on Tuesday, one day after 50 wounded Houthi fighters were allowed to fly to Oman for treatment as part of an elaborate sequence of confidence-building measures.
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"I appeal the government to take important confidence-building measures, including a proper independent and impartial judge-led investigation into reports of excessive use of force by the police," Bachelet wrote in an opinion piece in the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post newspaper on Saturday.
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To that end, the US should encourage Riyadh and Tehran to implement military confidence-building measures in the Persian Gulf; carry out a shared strategy for destroying ISIS; restart Sunni-Shia dialogue to reduce sectarianism and promote tolerance; and urge both sides to conclude an appropriate non-aggression pact.
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Jeffrey Lewis of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies told the news agency Punggye-ri's demolition would be a "good confidence building measure," while former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Siegfried Hecker said it would be a "big and positive step."[Reuters]
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While the warring sides will not meet face-to-face, the confidence-building measures may include negotiating a ceasefire in the critical port city of Hodeidah, large-scale prisoner swaps, the reopening of Sanaa international airport and the payment of salaries to civil servants in Houthi-held areas.
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The U.N.-sponsored talks, the first in more than two years, are focused on confidence-building steps, including reopening Sanaa airport and a truce in Hodeidah that could lead to a broader ceasefire in the nearly four-year-old conflict that has pushed Yemen to the verge of starvation.
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The parties have yet to agree on trickier issues such as re-opening Sanaa airport and a truce in the port city of Hodeidah, both held by the Houthis, both further confidence-building measures that are the focus of the talks in addition to a framework for negotiations.
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While Israelis and Palestinians alike are uncertain what Trump will ask of them, experts believe he will be looking to coax them to make an explicit commitment to return to the table without pre-conditions, start work on a timetable for talks and consider mutual "confidence-building" steps.
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"If the diplomats can do their work, if we can reduce the threat, if we can restore confidence building measures with something verifiable, then of course these kinds of issues can come up subsequently between two sovereign democracies, the Republic of Korea and the United States," Mattis said.
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Convinced that the establishment of new U.S.-DPRK relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that mutual confidence building can promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following: 1.
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Convinced that the establishment of new U.S.-DPRK relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that mutual confidence building can promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un state the following. 1.
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"Since these facilities are believed to have played an important role in the development of technologies for the North's intercontinental ballistic missile program, these efforts represent a significant confidence building measure on the part of North Korea," analyst Joseph Bermudez wrote for 38 North, according to the news service.
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Convinced that the establishment of new U.S.-DPRK relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that mutual confidence building can promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following: 1.
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Western nations, some of which supply arms and intelligence to a Saudi-led coalition backing the government, have pressed the two sides to agree confidence-building steps to pave the way for a wider truce and a political process to end the war, which has killed tens of thousands of people.
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In a confidence-building gesture ahead of a proposed summit meeting with President Trump, a suddenly loquacious and conciliatory Mr. Kim also said he would invite experts and journalists from South Korea and the United States to watch the shutdown next month of his country's only known underground nuclear test site.
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Beijing also said it had reached a consensus with Belarus and Pakistan – which are not claimant states – that said they respected China's stance on the issue, after separate meetings yesterday with the two nations' foreign ministers on the sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia.
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"This all points to the need for establishing agreed protocols for ensuring clear and effective communications between civilian and maritime law enforcement vessels of different countries operating in the area," said Michael Vatikiotis, Asia Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, which is helping claimant states design such confidence building measures.
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She still had a career as a photographer: in addition to magazine and corporate work, she had a sideline, which had grown out of a personal art project; she made commissioned portraits of women who, often for therapeutic, confidence-building reasons, wished to be photographed unclothed for the first time.
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When he met Mr. Kim in April for their first summit meeting, Mr. Moon agreed to push for the United States, and perhaps China too, to join the two Koreas in a joint end-of-the-war declaration this year, as a confidence-building prelude to negotiating a formal peace treaty.
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"In the meantime, if the U.S. has credible evidence that Russia is violating its CTBT commitments, it should propose, as allowed for in Articles V and VI of the treaty, mutual confidence building visits to the respective U.S. and Russian test sites by technical experts to address concerns about compliance," the association added.
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The so-called "reduction in violence" period, which started last Saturday, is meant as a confidence-building measure ahead of the United States and Taliban signing a broader deal that would start a gradual U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in exchange for assurances from the insurgents they would cut ties with al Qaeda.
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The easing of tariffs could serve as a "confidence building measure that costs the Chinese nothing," said Craig Allen, president of the US-China Business Council as both sides prepare to hold high-level talks in Washington next month following a tit-for-tat escalation of tariffs since talks broke down in May.
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Western nations, some of which supply arms and intelligence to the Saudi-led coalition that intervened in Yemen in 2015, had pressed the two sides to agree confidence-building steps to pave the way for a wider truce and a political process to end the war, which has killed tens of thousands of people.
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While talks toward a plan move forward, the administration will undertake a series of confidence-building measures; these might include a Palestinian pledge to resume security cooperation with Israel in return for the transfer of a bit of land to the Palestinian Authority, a limited settlement freeze and economic aid for West Bank Palestinians.
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Still, a limited deal — which Washington officials have begun referring to as an "early harvest" or a "confidence building" measure — could lower tensions between the United States and China and help to mitigate some of the damage that tariffs and other punitive measures have begun to take on companies on both sides of the fight.
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Without assurance that the Syrian leader will step down as part of the transition, said Philip H. Gordon, a former White House adviser on Syria and now a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, it is unclear whether the opposition and its principal backer in the region, Saudi Arabia, will agree even to so-called confidence-building measures.
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That's why the series of confidence-building measures North Korea has already announced and likely will negotiate -- including a hotline phone connecting North and South Korea's top leaders, a nuclear testing and long-range missile launch freeze, and perhaps even some preliminary inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency -- make sound strategic sense for North Korea.
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Mr. Magen, who is now a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, said the more important background to what he called the "confidence-building measures" of the return of the tank and the pension deal were Russian and Israeli interests given the "new reality" of Russia's presence in Syria.
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When United States, South Korean and Japanese officials meet in coming days to coordinate their policies, "it should become clear that any suspension of military exercises is not permanent policy but rather a short-term confidence building measure with North Korea," said Leif-Eric Easley, a professor of international studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.
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After Mr. Erdogan threatened in early August to carry out a cross-border operation to attack the Syrian Kurds, American diplomats and commanders rushed to establish a series of confidence-building measures — joint reconnaissance flights and ground patrols by American and Turkish forces — along a 75-mile stretch of the 300-mile border east of the Euphrates River.
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Just as importantly, Trump would be able to show America's South Korean allies that Washington is interested in enabling rather than blocking President Moon Jae-in's Korean peace initiative with the North -- one that has resulted in substantive confidence-building measures in the military domain and discussions between the Koreas on additional economic, diplomatic, cultural and political exchanges.
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Through cooperation with foreign partners and allies, and engagement with other stakeholders as appropriate, we advocate for a framework of responsible state behavior in cyberspace built upon international law, adherence to voluntary non-binding norms of responsible state behavior that apply during peacetime, and the implementation of practical confidence building measures to reduce the risk of conflict stemming from malicious cyber activity.
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"If you have not been on the peninsula in a while, along the DMZ there has been significant reduction that has enabled nascent confidence building measures ... its decreased the chance of mistakes, miscalculation, and its continued to preserve space for the main effort, the Department of State to continue along this road of negotiations and discussion with the DPRK," Abrams said.
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Though Mr Trump would surely prefer the sort of meeting in front of the world's cameras that he had with Mr Kim, the countries' long history of bad blood, along with the fact that Iran's regime needs to keep various factions on board, would probably require normalisation to come about step by step—through the appointment of trusted envoys, waivers on some sanctions, confidence-building talks on Yemen, and so on.
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Are these announcements true confidence-building measures or tactics designed to buy time, ease sanctions and put President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE in a weakened position going into the talks?
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The dismantling of the Sohae facility was never formally codified in a deal with Washington and was seen as part of the unilateral confidence-building measures Pyongyang offered at the beginning of the talks with the U.S. A U.S. government source, speaking to Reuters, said that the revelations were not particularly alarming, and was not on the same level as resuming missile launches, which have been suspended since 2017.
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Convinced that the establishment of new U.S.–DPRK relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that mutual confidence building can promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following: The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new U.S.–DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.
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Convinced that the establishment of new US-DPRK relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that mutual confidence building can promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following: The United States and the DPRK commit to establish new US-DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.
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Convinced that the establishment of new U.S.-DPRK relations will contribute to the peace and prosperity of the Korean Peninsula and of the world, and recognizing that mutual confidence building can promote the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un state the following: Having acknowledged that the U.S.-DPRK summit — the first in history — was an epochal event of great significance in overcoming decades of tensions and hostilities between the two countries and for the opening up of a new future, President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un commit to implement the stipulations in this joint statement fully and expeditiously.
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"The prisoner exchange will be one of the first confidence-building measures, so it will remain a very critical step that we need to push forward," he told the AP. Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoCarson on coronavirus: Task force is not 'sugarcoating' messaging Melania Trump at State award ceremony: I'm 'proud of what this country continues to do for women' House Republicans sound the alarm on Taliban deal MORE said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday morning that he was hopeful negotiations would commence between the Taliban and Afghanistan's government in coming says after the militant group had long refused to sit down with Afghan officials.
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