Vocabulary 2
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| 23) asylum seekers
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| 24) force boats back to somewhere
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| 25) asylum seekers
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| 26) intercept people
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| 27) at illegal entrance into some country
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| 28) put in place measures for dealing with
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| 29) people smuggling issues
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| 30) verify
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| 31) subsequently
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| 32) benefit of knowing one’s background
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| 33) maintain a policy
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| 34) refugee
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| 35) a breach of international law
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| 36) a place of persecution
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| 37) uphold one’s sovereignty
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| 38) maintaining one’s borders
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| 39) Minister for Customs and Justice
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| 40) safeguard our borders against smb
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| 41) illegal fishing/ entrance
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| 42) security risks
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| 43) pose a risk
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| 44) quarantine
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| 45) signatory to some document
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| 46) breach a convention
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| 47) a boatload of people
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| 48) (be) presented with a situation
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| 49) (be) charged with
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| 50) determine measures
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| 1. Is the illegal entrance to Australia still an acute problem?
2. Were the Australian authorities right to have taken measures like the one presented in the news report?
Vocabulary 3
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| 51) tensions are rising
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| 52) tensions over
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| 53) expulsion of officials
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| 54) high-ranking foreign
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| 55) insurgents
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| 56) acting head of a mission
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| 57) senior UN official
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| 58) a former diplomat
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| 59) regenerate parts of Afghanistan
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| 60) the very best known
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| 61) travel freely
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| 62) relationship, built up over 10 years
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| 63) expel smb
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| 64) associate with the Soviet Union
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| 65) raise the question
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| 66) target smb deliberately
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| 67) the row comes as
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| 68) prove embarrassing for
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| 69) at the outset
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| 70) isolate and eliminate the leadership
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| 71) analysts on the ground
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| 72) religious extremists
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| 73) tribal chiefs
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| 74) mediator
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| 75) engage in dialogue
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| 76) factions within the Taliban
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| 77) have a say
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| 78) governance of Afghanistan
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| 79) power sharing arrangement
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| 80) at least
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| 81) a more inclusive government
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| 82) to stabilise a country
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| 83) for the longer term
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| 1. How often is the extradition practiced in politics? What can be a reason for this?
2. Work out a list of reasons for extradition which can be internationally accepted. Work in groups.
Vocabulary 4
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| 84) defiant
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| 85) shrug off claims
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| 86) exaggerating Iran's nuclear threat
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| 87) pose a danger
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| 88) raise the spectre of World War Three
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| 89) a nuclear holocaust
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| 90) an intelligence assessment/ estimate
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| 91) ( be)dormant
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| 92) a "warning signal
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| 93) strident rhetoric
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| 94) friends and foes
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| 95) a damage control media conference
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| 96) quite the contrary
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| 97) ambiguities have been clarified
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| 98) under the supervision
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| 99) cripple its drive for
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| 100) repeatedly
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| 101) vital
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| 102) concerted efforts
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| 103) defuse the current crisis
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| 1. What is the current state of affairs of Iran’s nuclear program?
Work out a set of measures to prevent a threatening scenario and discuss it. Try to predict possible countermeasures of Iran.
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