21.   Regional stability cannot be established without the adjustment of national interests of neighboring countries, which share borders and have close ethnic ties with Afghanistan.

22.   Reaction to the situation has been mixed in countries that share borders with Peru.

23.   Russian troops are part of the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Bosnia, which shares a border with Kosovo.

24.   Sharing a border with Mexico, Guatemala, has become a major transit route for cocaine and illegal immigrants bound for the United States.

25.   Six others are from states or a Canadian province that shares a border with Michigan.

26.   That means extra troops if necessary, and security agreements with countries who share a border with Serbia.

27.   The Kaliningrad district is cut off from the main part of Russia, instead sharing borders with Poland and Lithuania.

28.   The nine countries that share borders with Congo include oil-rich Angola to the south and war-wracked Rwanda to the east.

29.   The strikes have relied heavily upon support from former Soviet republics in Central Asia, especially Uzbekistan, which shares a border with Afghanistan.

30.   The US official said that one possible staging area could be India, even though it does not share a border with Afghanistan.