Unmiss has been in South Sudan since the country's creation in 2011, with a remit to preserve peace and security.
Occasionally, outsiders can preserve peace on the cheap.
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Pro-American countries in Asia, such as South Korea, reacted nervously to the potential threat to a security alliance that has helped preserve peace in the region for decades and acts as a counterweight to a strong China.
Meanwhile former foreign office minister David Mellor told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was a tragedy that the wave of international politicians trying to preserve peace had not been present "before the situation got to the terrible state that it is now".
That included military space programs, which experts believed would be required to preserve the peace during what was expected to be a prolonged period of diminished tensions.
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Messrs Holbrooke and Hill see Mr Milosevic as a necessary evil who can deliver a deal on Kosovo (and, more important for Washington, preserve the peace in Bosnia).
With his leadership and growing evidence of the support it enjoys among our countrymen, we may yet stave off the disaster than looms for this nation and the Free World more generally at the hands of those who wish us ill and who can be deterred or, if necessary, defeated - as long as we remain strong enough to preserve the peace.
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As a way to keep the peace and preserve law enforcement resources, he suggested legalizing prostitution, at least during the month-long event itself.
We will preserve our unique ability to project power and deter threats to peace.
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Challenges we must meet and meet together if we are to preserve the American dream for all Americans, maintain America's leadership for peace and freedom, and continue to come together around our basic values.
The evening before the festivity of Saint Blaise in Dubrovnik, Croatia, as all the church bells in the city ring and white doves are released as symbols of peace, worshippers gather for a ritual healing of the throat to preserve them against illness.
His still strong public support in a poll last weekend, 63% said he was doing a good job as prime minister, though only 36% thought he could defeat terror or bring peace rests to a large degree on his ability to preserve the unity, however spurious, of the perennially popular unity government.
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