| The troops are supposed to monitor the buffer zone while an international boundary commission demarcates the disputed 1 000 km. |
| The French army intervened to protect its nationals and to set up a buffer zone to prevent the conflict spreading south. |
| United Nations peacekeeping forces maintain a buffer zone between the two sides. |
| In southern Mongolia, the winters have been getting colder and the summers hotter, with barely a springtime buffer zone. |
| They had mapped out various routes through parts of the buffer zone of the reserve which has a number of sandalwood trees. |
| The soldiers deployed in late December and early January 1996, and quickly established a 2.5-mile-wide buffer zone between the opposing forces. |
