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One year later, the UN and the Economic Community of West African States deployed soldiers as peacekeepers in neighboring Sierra Leone to guarantee a ceasefire in that country's near-decade-long conflict, instigated by rebels of the Revolutionary United Front.
In neighboring Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff’s administration made little effort to hide its preference for Macri’s opponent.
Designated an “apostate,” his business was burned down, his brother was brutally murdered, his wife and children fled to neighboring villages, and Shabbir, together with his elderly father, took the long, cruel road, via Iran and Turkey, to imagined safety in civilized Europe.
Bush’s termination of the ground war in Iraq after only four days was motivated in part by humanitarian concerns about the slaughter of Iraqi troops, as well as by an interest in not leaving Iraq so weakened that it could not balance the power of neighboring Iran.
Greece and Turkey also worked together to prevent the war in Iraq from spilling over into neighboring countries.
About four million northerners were denied political participation or land ownership on the grounds that they were descendants of migrants from neighboring countries.
Will political change occur when per capita nominal GDP, now at roughly $7,000, approaches $10,000, as occurred in neighboring South Korea and Taiwan?
Besides the never-ending anarchy of neighboring Somalia, the regional challenges facing Ethiopia and its long-serving prime minister, Meles Zenawi, are daunting.
The peace deal between the government and the former rebel SPLM is unraveling fast in neighboring Sudan, where a scheduled referendum in the South in January 2011 on secession and independence – part of the 2005 peace deal – may provoke a return to all-out war.
The human-rights situation could undoubtedly be improved – in particular, the treatment of the political opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa – but Isaias Afwerki’s regime in neighboring Eritrea is worse by orders of magnitude.
He will probably be more aggressive in responding to neighboring Venezuela’s challenges, both on the border and throughout the region.
Indeed, despite expressions of solidarity, they have refused to establish a protection zone for Syrian civilians along the border of neighboring states, or to impose a no-fly zone for Syrian military aircraft.
The total number of internally displaced people now stands at 4.5 million – second only to Syria in current conflicts – while another 750,000 have fled to neighboring countries.
As neighboring countries know all too well, what happens in the DRC often doesn’t stay in the DRC.
For example, refugees leaving Sudan can strain the stability of neighboring Chad.
Similarly, over-fishing of sharks in the Caribbean has triggered a rise in octopus and a drastic drop in spiny lobsters and scallops – two major sources of revenue for neighboring coastal communities.
The United States has plenty of incentive to put pressure on Pakistan, a country that has long pretended to be an ally, even as it continues to aid the militant groups fighting and killing US soldiers in neighboring Afghanistan.
While the EU has at least some means - like preferential trade agreements and associations - to export something of its own stability to neighboring countries, NATO as a security alliance has no such means.
For example, Russia's most urgent foreign policy problems are its relations with the United States and the conflict over South Ossetia with neighboring Georgia.
The neighboring Middle East is in turmoil; the West is attempting to contain a newly aggressive Russia; and China, already the world’s largest source of savings, the largest trading country, and the largest overall economy (in terms of purchasing power parity), is confronting the West with new economic and strategic realities.
Not surprisingly, prices in Venezuela rise in one month more than they do in two years in neighboring Colombia.
Last month, campaign groups in neighboring countries wrote to their representatives at the EBRD, requesting that the bank suspend its support for revitalizing Ukraine’s nuclear power plants until a cross-border assessment is carried out.
Unlike neighboring Costa Rica, Nicaragua has no high-tech industry.
China is also the region’s largest importer, with much of the trade from neighboring countries comprising electronics and machinery, underscoring China’s role as Asia’s “processing hub.”
A Middle East with a brutal, unfettered terrorist state at its center would be a direct threat to neighboring Europe’s safety.
After an arduous four-day journey that included evading militias and making a perilous river crossing, they reached safety in neighboring Bangladesh.
From the 1940’s to the 1960’s, Syria was the playground of neighboring powers.
A Fiscal Fix for the GCCABU DHABI – Supported by strong oil revenues and spurred by unrest in neighboring countries, the Gulf oil exporters – especially Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain, which form the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – have lately ramped up public social and investment spending.
Such plans can also support due diligence – for example, exploring China’s relationships with neighboring or other countries at a similar level of development.
Now, nearly one million people have fled Burma’s political and economic chaos for neighboring countries, and another million people remain internally displaced.
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