1.   Both countries claimed the proposals would not endanger whale populations.

2.   Both countries claimed the same area, precipitating a border war.

3.   Several countries claim authority over the islands.

4.   And for decades India has fought Pakistan for control of the Kashmir region that both countries claim.

5.   Both countries claim the territory which has been the cause of more than a half-century of conflict between them.

6.   But they are certain to discuss Kashmir, the ravishingly beautiful territory that both countries claim.

7.   Fighting between India and Pakistan intensified last week over land both countries claim.

8.   India believes Pakistan is sponsoring radical Islamic terrorists in Kashmir, a region the two countries each claim.

9.   Japan occasionally scrambles its fighter aircraft when Chinese warplanes approach the Senkaku Islands, a few uninhabited islets that both countries claim.

10.   Officials said their conversation centered on economic issues and not on the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, which both countries claim.