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The economic dislocations and the humiliation of proud nations were, indeed, devastating (as Greeks today can attest).
The biodiversity hosted by the world’s developing nations provides both local and global services.
Halting the cutting and burning of tropical forests, which are found almost exclusively in developing nations, is among the most readily achievable and effective possible steps to reduce carbon emissions.
But this would be ethically wrong, because developed nations have largely destroyed their own primary forests and ecosystems on the path to industrial development, and continue to import large quantities of raw material extracted in developing countries.
But the idea of the United Nations as a uniter of nations remains, in many parts of the world and for many of the world's most complex problems, more an ideal still to be achieved than a living reality.
Some of the most powerful nations in the world still do not see fully cooperating with or participating in UN affairs as in their interest.
Some warned even before EU accession that their nations could lose their identity.
But both versions then immediately go on to “remember heroic acts of numerous Poles, especially the Righteous Among the Nations, who risked their lives to save Jewish people.”
“How is it,” he asks, “that Israel – a country of 7.1 million people, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources – produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the United Kingdom?”
Both appeal to moral obligations that stretch far beyond nations’ cultural and physical boundaries.
It would then have the moral authority to demand that other nations do the same.
Before long, the colonies were exporting wood to the many nations that no longer had the timber they needed for ships, casks, shingles, and other construction materials.
If we calculate the time and energy lost in developing nations to gathering, treating, and storing water, and the health burden caused by a lack of decent drinking water and sanitation, the costs of creating a typical water and sewer network can remain higher than the benefits.
Estimates of what people in poor nations are willing to pay for piped water do not exceed the costs for many water and sanitation projects.
Many developing nations have tackled the sanitation challenge by building subsidized latrines.
The demonstrators want to free the poorest nations from unbearable and crushing debts.
Indeed, Transparency International, a watchdog group, calls Georgia one of the 10 most corrupt nations in the world.
The problem of identity is made even worse by the fact that most Central European nations, where nation-building was retarded by Communism, easily succumb to nationalist sentiments that in turn are misused by some politicians.
France, Sweden, the UK, and other European nations guarantee a long list of positive rights and entitlements for their citizens.
It was, of course, the embrace of rational, market-driven economic policies by the former communist nations that has brought them to the brink of EU membership.
Eventually, they will have to recognize that modern nations cannot live by power alone.
It was even argued that theses nations are small markets, could not be a source of capital or technology, and (except for Poland) have always been a means, not an end, in Russian policy.
America's Sick Health Care SystemAlone among industrialized nations, the United States lacks a national health insurance system.
Difficult as it was for the forces of freedom and democracy to prevail over totalitarianism, it will be even more difficult to win the peace, to develop and enforce optimal patterns for a new life together of states and nations on this planet that addresses the world's present condition.
One of the many principles that I believe should govern this great undertaking is to develop in the international community the maximum degree of respect for the democratically and freely expressed will of individual nations or states.
The more the international community respects this will -- provided that this does not interfere with the legitimate will of other nations -- the more stable the world will be.
Never again should others decide the future of peoples and countries; at the very least, nobody should undertake such decisionmaking without knowing and respecting the legitimate and freely expressed ambitions of the nations concerned.
The three Benelux countries, along with a few other smaller EU nations, are opposed to the new European president being from a large nation.
Japan justifies its whaling as “research,” because the International Whaling Commission’s rules allow member nations to kill whales for such purposes.
Western nations, the Japanese say, should not try to impose their cultural beliefs on them.
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