BBC Home affairs editor Mark Easton in his blog cites examples of Dr Raabe's extreme hostility to harm reduction which a fundamental part of the way this countries health care and education professionals seek to safeguard the welfare of young people and drug users.
But any reduction in hostility toward Israel by Kuwait, with its economic strength and Arab nationalist roots, would be especially symbolic.
Courtship behaviour has many advantages and functions, including the reduction of hostility between the potential sex partners, especially in species in which the male actively defends a territory.
More than 65,000 people died in Sri Lanka's 23-year civil war before the 2002 ceasefire agreement brought a reduction in hostilities, and a further 800 have been killed since low-level hostilities resumed earlier this year.
The reduction of hostilities would ease defense concerns.
It was not clear whether the military offensive was the government's reply to the cease-fire offer or whether it was an attempt to gain some ground before a reduction of hostilities.
The attempt to achieve seven consecutive days of a "reduction of hostilities" — the first step in a series of events envisioned in the deal between the United States and Russia — is not dead.
"After more than 9,000 people have lost their lives, the reduction in hostilities, and thus in new casualties, is very welcome," said the UN human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein.
After the latest round of negotiations between the leaders of the KIO and the government, both sides agreed to a seven-point plan for the further reduction of hostilities and new arrangements for the resettlement of displaced civilians.
Signed on September 5 by representatives of the all-warring parties, the ceasefire prompted a reduction in hostilities, but fighting continued to flare in hotspots across the region.
"I decided to accept the program laid out by Mr. Tenet and see if it will lead to a reduction in hostilities," Sharon said Tuesday in a speech to the Israeli Chambers of Commerce.
