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  2. Paris Peace Treaties, 1947 - Wikipedia

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    The Paris Peace Treaties ( French: Traités de Paris) were signed on 10 February 1947 following the end of World War II in 1945. The Paris Peace Conference lasted from 29 July until 15 October 1946. The victorious wartime Allied powers (principally the United Kingdom, Soviet Union, United States, and France) negotiated the details of peace ...

  3. Peace treaty - Wikipedia

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    A peace treaty is an agreement between two or more hostile parties, usually countries or governments, which formally ends a state of war between the parties. [1] It is different from an armistice, which is an agreement to stop hostilities; a surrender, in which an army agrees to give up arms; or a ceasefire or truce, in which the parties may ...

  4. Treaty of Versailles - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers. It was signed in the Palace of Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which led to the war.

  5. International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Wikipedia

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    The Campaign receiving the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines ( ICBL) is a coalition of non-governmental organizations whose stated objective is a world free of anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, where mine and cluster munitions survivors see their rights respected and can lead fulfilling lives.

  6. International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons - Wikipedia

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    The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (abbreviated to ICAN, pronounced / ˈ aɪ k æ n / EYE-kan) is a global civil society coalition working to promote adherence to and full implementation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The campaign helped bring about this treaty. ICAN was launched in 2007.

  7. Treaty of San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of San Francisco (サンフランシスコ講和条約, San-Furanshisuko kōwa-Jōyaku), also called the Treaty of Peace with Japan (日本国との平和条約, Nihon-koku to no Heiwa-Jōyaku), re-established peaceful relations between Japan and the Allied Powers on behalf of the United Nations by ending the legal state of war and providing for redress for hostile actions up to and ...

  8. Paris Peace Accords - Wikipedia

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    The Paris Peace Accords ( Vietnamese: Hiệp định Paris về Việt Nam ), officially the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam ( Hiệp định về chấm dứt chiến tranh, lập lại hòa bình ở Việt Nam ), was a peace agreement signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War.

  9. Nuclear disarmament - Wikipedia

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    Kazakhstan. Ukraine. v. t. e. Nuclear disarmament is the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons. Its end state can also be a nuclear-weapons-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated. The term denuclearization is also used to describe the process leading to complete nuclear disarmament.