Example sentences of "the situation around [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Fourthly , Low " raised the question of the situation around Bleiburg " .
2 In his speech before the Indian Parliament in December 1980 Brezhnev denied that the Soviet Union posed a threat to the Gulf Soviet leaders proposed sureties for Western interests in Gulf oil and by 1981 expressed their readiness ‘ to take part in a settlement of the situation around Afghanistan … linked with matters of Persian Gulf security ’ .
3 However , he refrained on this occasion from explicitly linking them to the situation around Afghanistan .
4 Soviet writers subsequently argued that the EEC policy on the Afghan issue , coordinated in the neutralisation plan , ‘ served as an additional factor strengthening the inconsistency of the policy of Pakistan in the ‘ Afghan question ’ and , consequently , postponing the prospects of a real settlement of the situation around Afghanistan ’ .
5 Soviet officials were relieved when the Iranian government replaced this extremist plan in July 1982 with the view that a settlement of the situation around Afghanistan should be based on ‘ the principles of Islam and non-alignment ’ .
6 But for many years Soviet statements have considered the DRA 's ‘ peaceful initiatives ’ on settling the situation around Afghanistan ( such as the regime 's political programme of 14 May 1980 ) ‘ in the context of normalising the situation in the region as a whole ’ .
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