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A neutral country is a state that is neutral towards belligerents in a specific war or holds itself as permanently neutral in all future conflicts (including avoiding entering into military alliances such as NATO or CSTO). As a type of non-combatant status, nationals of neutral countries enjoy protection under the law of war from belligerent actions to a greater extent than other non-combatants such as enemy civilians and prisoners of war.
Different countries interpret their neutrality differently: some, such as Costa Rica, have demilitarized, while Switzerland holds to "armed neutrality" to deter aggression with a sizeable military while barring itself from foreign deployment. However, not all neutral countries avoid any foreign deployment or alliances, as Austria, Ireland, Finland and Sweden have active UN peacekeeping forces and a political alliance within the European Union. The traditional Swedish policy is not to participate in military alliances, with the intention of staying neutral in the case of war. Immediately before World War II, the Nordic countries stated their neutrality, but Sweden changed its position to that of non-belligerent at the start of the Winter War.
There have been considerable changes to the interpretation of neutral conduct over the past centuries. During the Cold War another European country, Yugoslavia, claimed military and ideological neutrality, and that is continued by its successor, Serbia.

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  1. J

    56v on neutral

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  2. Pistolpete82

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  3. A

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    I am a gsr and just wanted clarification as to why its not recommended to just use a 5 core cable connecting live, neutral, com and nc from combi boiler terminal box rather then feeding another cable from spur socket just for live and neutral for reciver box. Any advise
  4. R

    nest install issue

    Hoping someone can help with this. Trying to install the nest heatlink and stumbled on a problem as the wiring nest has in the manual is different to mine! I have 3 neutral & 2 live going into the old programmer. And 2 wires, 1 in "com" the other in "On" How do i wire these into the nest...
  5. F

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    hi guys i have a valiant boiler 937 and have the wireless siemens rdj10rf its wiring is live, neutral, L1- live feed to controlled item and lx- common so 4 wires the Hive 2 (heat only) is live , neutral, common, heating on and heating off so 5 wires Please advise how to wire it? thanks
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    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  6. M

    Carbon neutral on new builds

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  7. C

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    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  8. Leo21

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  9. M

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  10. jaydebruyne

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    Can you test voltage on a single wire using a multimeter? If so, how? I know this sounds like a dumb question but, say I want to find out the common wire on a cylinder stat. Do I just put one probe on the single wire? (I don't have anything I can test here at home...)
  11. P

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  12. S

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  13. A

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  14. W

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  15. C

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  16. M

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  17. G

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  18. P

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  19. B

    Honeywell DT90E thermostat

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  20. H

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