Now that a Colombian president is ready to acknowledge the extent to which drugs have shaped his country's conflict, a solution might conceivably be found.
Critics said the action was excessive and scuppered any chance of a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
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The report welcomed the endorsement by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of a two-state solution to the conflict.
Most opposition leaders and activists say Assad's regime has killed too many people to be part of a solution to the conflict.
Ashton welcomed Richards' Premier League appointment last week, as a solution to the conflict that has broken out behind the scenes at the club.
Yet Mr Erdogan seems to be moving back to a purely military solution to the conflict with rebels in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
He came to believe that the only rational and realistic solution to this conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians was to divide the land.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon asked if the government would be focusing its policy on finding a political solution to the conflict.
Convincing both sides would be almost impossible but it would produce a definitive and lasting solution to the conflict over Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
Despite repeated failures to bring about a negotiated solution to the conflict, the United Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, continues to push for one.
During his inaugural general audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis called for an immediate political solution to the conflict in the Central African Republic after last weekend's coup.
In the aftermath of the latest fighting, both Israel and Hamas have joined the international community in calling for a durable and comprehensive solution to the conflict.
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Earlier in his Commons statement, Mr Hague also warned that time was running out for a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people.
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In Ramallah, a senior Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said the Gilo plan exacerbated the danger now hovering over the whole concept of a two-state solution to the conflict.
ETFs appear to be a possible solution to this conflict.
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What appears to have caught those dreaming of a quick solution to the conflict completely by surprise is the depth of hatred that the Palestinians evince toward Israel.
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The agreed resolution brings together the ingredients for an integrated solution to the conflict and has the support of large sectors of Basque society and of the international community.
"Neither side can allow itself to rely on a military solution to the conflict, because it is a road to nowhere, a road to mutual destruction of the people, " he said.
Her peace overtures led to speculation that the two main parties may come together in the search for a solution to a conflict that has claimed more than 55, 000 lives in the past two decades.
His words were echoed by the UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, who told the New York gathering that Syria would become a failed state unless a negotiated political solution to the conflict could be found.
But he said that ending the conflict there required a political solution, not a military one, and emphasized that the primary role of U.N. troops would be to monitor any cease-fire agreed upon by the warring parties.
But as someone who believes a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza is the only long-term solution to this conflict, I suspect the fall of Mr. Arafat may now be the only hope for creating the kind of free Palestinian society that will allow that to happen.
Thus, what is ultimately needed is not just a diplomatic solution but also a conflict-settlement formula to reconcile the two East Timorese communities.
"The best solution to resolve this conflict is of course to promote a system for making government officials' property public, " The Beijing News comments.
But Wendy Sherman, the US Under Secretary for Political affairs, told the Brussels Forum that the Geneva agreement "is still a basis for reaching a solution" to the conflict.
The forum, which is due to conclude by the end of October, is organised around seven themes: security, development, refugees, reconciliation, the foreign dimension of the conflict, information and a possible solution.
In his press conference last Thursday, President Bush said people who don't believe in the applicability of democracy to the Arab world cannot really believe in a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict with Israel.
Although such realignments are fairly common in Sri Lanka, the current epidemic of political manoeuvring renders the immediate prospects for stability, or for progress towards a negotiated solution to the civil conflict, unpromising in the extreme.
Our opposition is based on one thing, which is our belief that a solution to this long conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only be resolved by face-to-face negotiations that will result in a Palestinian state and an Israeli state living side by side in peace and security.
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