11.   Before leaving Moscow on Monday morning, Yeltsin recalled this geographic proximity as he expressed his intention to discuss NATO expansion to the east, which he opposes.

12.   Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines claim parts based on geographic proximity.

13.   Spain and Canada have peacekeepers on the ground in the former Yugoslavia while Italy has a strong interest in seeing the conflict settled due to its geographic proximity.

14.   The geographic proximity to highly-pollutant Russian nuclear and nickel-smelting waste has concerned Norway for years.