Gujarat had opposed the appeal of Madhya Pradesh, pointing to its neighbour's poor record on protecting its own tiger population in the Panna reserve forest.
Poland wants Ukraine as a prosperous, stable and accessible neighbour, not as a poor and rackety one with a dodgy democracy and even dodgier nuclear power stations.
For a vast, poor and sparsely populated land, anxiety about a neighbour with over 450 times as many people and an economy that has been booming for three decades is perhaps inevitable.