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The geopolitical world has got a lot to learn from the digital world.

Fiji is fully dedicated to a Security Council membership which reflects current geopolitical realities.

We recognize that, in its composition, the Security Council does not reflect current geopolitical realities.

Stronger regional governance structures may be the only effective means of reducing exogenous geopolitical risk.

Development is an effective way to deal with the factors of regional conflicts and geopolitical instability.

Council reform will make sense only if its purpose is to better reflect today's geopolitical realities.

Since international investors perceive the region as a patchwork of many separate markets interlinked by geopolitical risk, intraregional industrial business opportunities and capacities must be developed in order to reap greater welfare benefits from economic policy cooperation, industrial modernization and geopolitical risk amelioration.

We need a more democratic and more representative Security Council that better reflects today's new geopolitical situation.

This ice loss, caused largely by human induced global warming, has far reaching environmental, geopolitical, and economic consequences.

Geopolitical events and national security doctrines had favoured the proliferation of nuclear weapons and their means of delivery.

Europe cannot afford not to resist Russia s geopolitical aggression, and it needs to be unified to have any chance of success. Yet, the unified European policy must not be purely geopolitical, because if it were, the common interest would not be strong enough to override national interests.

The new composition of the Council goes hand in hand with the geopolitical realities of the twenty first century.

The current composition of the Security Council mirrors neither today's geopolitical realities nor the increased membership of the United Nations.

Singapore continues to believe that there should be an expansion of the Security Council to better reflect contemporary geopolitical realities.

This relationship has only been strengthened in our era of rapid technological advances, increasing economic interdependence, globalization and dramatic geopolitical change.

So there appear to be good reasons why global markets so far have reacted benignly to today s geopolitical risks. What could change that?

Owing to changed geopolitical priorities and rising salaries, the London Board decided in 1999 to disband the joint venture by 31 March 2001.

Citizens of the world reached out beyond the confines of geopolitical and other man made barriers in one magnificent gesture of human generosity.

Disruptions in oil production in the Gulf of Mexico in September 2004 further tightened supplies, as did geopolitical tensions in Iraq, Nigeria and Venezuela.

NEW YORK The world s economic, financial, and geopolitical risks are shifting. Some risks now have a lower probability even if they are not fully extinguished.

Continuing geopolitical tensions combined with refining and distribution industry bottlenecks caused tight supply conditions for light products, which were coupled with high oil demand throughout 2004.

The sponsors of such draft resolutions against developing countries were motivated by geopolitical concerns and never submitted similar draft resolutions to address their own human rights violations.

Also, while some official development assistance (ODA) continues to be given in furtherance of geopolitical considerations, there is a marked shift to allocations based on good policies.

That enemy, however, was also European first Germany, then Russia. In effect, the shared transatlantic geopolitical interest was between the US and one part of Europe against another.

We remain hopeful that a formula for Security Council expansion that will better reflect today's geopolitical realities, including through the permanent membership of Japan, can be worked out.

Secondly, the proposal is adaptable, as it would make it possible to take into account the emergence of new geopolitical realities through the process of potential re election.

What happens if an apparently minor system such as social media sparks a major geopolitical crisis? With the growing reach of social networks, information can spread worldwide almost instantaneously.

Only enlargement in both categories will bring about the structural change of the Security Council needed to reflect today's geopolitical realities and to strengthen the Council's legitimacy and effectiveness.

First, I urge Member States to make the Security Council more broadly representative of the international community as a whole, as well as of the geopolitical realities of today.

Above all, European leaders must promote increased naval cooperation. After all, naval capacities are essential to the projection of European power and crucial to maintaining geopolitical stability around the world.

Because of its geopolitical situation, its extensive borders and its status as an underdeveloped country, Bolivia may be regarded as a likely place of refuge or transit for international terrorists.

While geopolitical risks can be daunting, some other explanation is needed for the failure of existing resources to account for the risk factors and the institutions developing on that basis.

There is a recent precedent for this vision, and thus reason to be hopeful. Some 23 years ago, the geopolitical context that sustained the division of the two Germanys changed radically.

Europe s geopolitical, economic, and social weight is quite obvious. But Europe s integration of sovereign states interests by means of common institutions could also be an example for much of the world.

We continue to face strong headwinds originating from the deepening European debt crisis, as well as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. China, once the world s unstoppable growth engine, is slowing.

So NATO expansion has left the Cold War unfinished. The ideological and military confrontation that underlay it is gone, but the geopolitical rivalry that it entailed has returned to the fore.

Mr. Pak Tok Hun (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) said that geopolitical and other national interests of certain countries and groups of countries should not be disguised as concern for human rights.

Moreover, even if China suffers no major domestic political setback, many current projections are based simply on GDP growth. They ignore US military and soft power advantages, as well as China s geopolitical disadvantages.

The structural causes behind mass flows of refugees and internally displaced persons ranged from extreme poverty and chronic underdevelopment to international military conflicts to defend major geopolitical interests and control strategic natural resources.

Saudi Arabia is in a violent struggle with Iran for regional supremacy, with geopolitical competition converging with the Sunni Shia rivalry. Israel, the Middle East s only nuclear power, wants to retain its strategic monopoly.

Why the indifference? Are investors too complacent, or is their apparent lack of concern rational, given that the actual economic and financial impact of current geopolitical risks at least so far has been modest?

Morell thus placed himself squarely within one of the two principal schools of thought in the policy debate on Syria (a debate that is articulated almost exclusively in geopolitical terms and ignores humanitarian issues).