Application to territorial units

Applicable law in territorial units

Effect in domestic territorial units

(vi) Act on territorial authorities

But Asia is home to a multiplicity of unresolved territorial disputes.

The improved diplomatic relationship lasted until the recent flare up of territorial and other bilateral disputes.

Economic borders cannot and will not disappear until Russia and Ukraine agree on their territorial borders.

Otherwise, sovereign owners can claim only 12 nautical miles of territorial waters.

Under Milosevic, a majority of the Serbs turned to radical nationalism based on violence and territorial conquest.

This is the basis for the position advanced by Chile and Argentina for their territorial claims.

Indeed, many of the region s territorial disputes pit China against US allies.

Regarding Asia s ongoing maritime disputes, let me underscore my government s three principles.

The opinions regarding the ways of how to settle the territorial conflicts are sharply divided inside the Georgian society.

Factors like geographical distance and economic interdependence have made the US wary of entanglement in Asia s territorial feuds.

It also makes common cause with South Korea much more difficult, and heightens the risk of maritime territorial disputes becoming explosive.

The relations among the three have been strained due to disputes over territory and history.

The pro democracy camp is likely to win 22 seats of those 30 seats, which are based on five large geographical constituencies.

We now know that chimpanzee society is male bonded, and there is ample evidence of territorial warfare between communities.

However, local decisions often have repercussions on citizens in other communities. So certain services should be allocated to a broader geographic unit because they have externalities (that is, interdependence of effects).

Likewise, China has been posing new challenges to India, ratcheting up strategic pressure on multiple flanks, including by reviving old territorial claims.

But such modest gains are more than offset by the security setbacks that China has suffered as a result of its assertiveness in regional territorial disputes.

By hinging China s market access on progress in resolving political, territorial, and water disputes, India can prevent China from fortifying its leverage.

Will armed conflict result from these recurring and, it seems, escalating disputes between the Philippines and Vietnam on one side, and China on the other? War, of course, is in no one s interest.

One of the first signs of this shift was China s revival in 2006 of its long dormant claim to Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh.

It is not clear if deflation can be beaten with monetary policy excessive fiscal stimulus and deferred austerity may make the debt unsustainable and the structural reform components of Abenomics are vague. Moreover, tensions with China over territorial claims in the East China Sea may adversely affect trade and foreign direct investment.

Will armed conflict result from these recurring and, it seems, escalating disputes between the Philippines and Vietnam on one side, and China on the other?

Moreover, tensions with China over territorial claims in the East China Sea may adversely affect trade and foreign direct investment.

Japan s main worry is that the US may not wish to risk a war with China over territorial disputes in the East China Sea.

International law, China understands, is a double edged sword that can be used against China in other territorial disputes, or even in its domestic affairs.

Astola Island, also known as Jezira Haft Talar () or 'Island of the Seven Hills', is a small, uninhabited island in the northern tip of the Arabian Sea in Pakistan's territorial waters.

The country is viewed more positively in Latin America and Africa, where it has no territorial disputes and human rights concerns are not always high on the public agenda.

Women s rights activists in the region should not fall into a brainwashing trap of nationalism and territorial disputes, becoming another tool in the hands of politicians.

As with its territorial and maritime disputes with India, Vietnam, Japan, and others, China is seeking to disrupt the status quo on international river flows.

That doesn t mean that community gardeners, who don t even try to be profitable, aren t making a big difference in their immediate communities.

Empires emerge when a national group considers its existence inside its territorial borders either risky or ineffective, and embarks on a forced expansion that is usually connected with large scale violence.

Although most territorial issues have been negotiated, the most difficult ones, which were intentionally left to the latter stages of the negotiations, now must be addressed.

Meanwhile, Asia is being roiled by intensifying territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas, as countries revive old claims against each other.

It follows that pulling back from any territorial dispute with smaller and inferior states would be seen as a humiliating defeat, rather than a step toward ensuring long term regional stability.

China has added to regional tensions with a foreign policy including advancing territorial claims in the East and South China Seas that would be described diplomatically as assertive, and more bluntly as bullying.

Governments across Asia are concerned that China s rapidly accumulating power is emboldening it to assert territorial and maritime claims against neighbors stretching from Japan to India.

And, with the CDF s emphasis on cooperation, there was no discussion of possible military action by the Chinese to stake their disputed territorial claims in the East and South China Seas.

How to assess countries claims to Arctic territory hinges on the status of the Lomonosov Ridge, a vast formation that rises from the sea floor and stretches 1,800 kilometers from Greenland to the East Siberian continental shelf.

Noting with satisfaction the progress made in the region in the search for peaceful solutions to existing territorial and border disputes, in accordance with the principles of public international law and the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations,

The presence of the Russian ships in the Pacific coast is seen as a warning that Nicaragua could be willing to escalate its border disputes, including the San Juan River controversy.

This pattern suggests that the central objective of Chinese leaders visits to India is not to advance cooperation on a shared agenda, but to reinforce China s own interests, beginning with its territorial claims.