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Highlights the Shangri-la Dialogue, a 2002 conference in Singapore sponsored by the International Instit for Strategic Studies (IISS), which brought together defense ministers from 17 countries of the Assoc of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The importance of the conference in relation to the development of multilateral security in the Asia Pacific is discussed, along with former attempts to unite the region's defense ministers; reasons for the success of the Shangri-la Dialogue; & the key role played by the IISS in promoting multilateral dialogue. Strategic transformations that have occurred since the end of the Cold War are noted, maintaining that the ASEAN Regional Forum is central to multilateral security in the Asia Pacific. It is contended that the ASEAN, formed in 1994, has been successful at working through its agenda & building confidence in the region; however, it currently does not have enough power to influence the primary forces that shape the region's security environment. Suggestions are made for ways to increase the joint power of ASEAN through defense minister forums. J. Lindroth

215War and armed conflict — Prisoners of war — Definition of — Distinction between prisoners of war and civilian prisoners — Cyprus — Cypriot national granted deferment of military service in order to complete studies — Detention by Turkish army during 1974 conflict — Whether a prisoner of war — Repatriation of prisoners of war — Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 1949 — Articles 4(A), 117, 118 and 119Relationship between international law and municipal law — Treaties — Constitution of Cyprus — Treaties possessing superior status to national legislation — The law of Cyprus