There, Myanmar was promised the chairmanship of the regional block for 2014.
Yet South-East Asia is proving rather resilient, even if the new kid on the regional block, reforming Myanmar, has too small an economy yet to have much of an impact.
Both intend to merge the city and prefectural governments, to create a regional block to draw investment and jobs away from Tokyo and help reshape government to cope with an ageing society.
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The trouble is that neither would be guaranteed to win even their own state, let alone the South, and the last vice-president to deliver a regional block of votes was Lyndon Johnson, in 1960.
After a few weeks a tripartite mechanism involving the regime, the United Nations and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the regional block, was established and eased barriers such as the visas aid workers need, and the permits required to import equipment.
It could even drive them out of Mercosur, the regional trade block to which both countries belong, and into the arms of the United States.
The Bundesrat's remaining 18 seats are held by a supposedly neutral block of five regional coalition governments whose representatives would usually have abstained on so controversial an issue.
However, the defeats in the regional elections may make it much harder to hold together his governing block, which is a disparate group of regional and national parties with conflicting aims.
It's a savvy strategy, because under FCC rules, if the regional bids top the bids for the C block, that block must be split up and apportioned to the highest bidder or bidders.
UN, so they promoted regional peacekeeping: the neighbours should police their own block.
Carter-Williams, a sophomore in his first full season and likely bound for the NBA in the near future, finished with 12 points, six assists, one turnover, five steals, one block, and eight rebounds, and was voted the East Regional MVP.
Regional sanctions are unlikely, but the United States may cut its bilateral aid, and block new loans from the World Bank and others.
Indeed, the block was formed in 1967 partly to tie Indonesia down in a Lilliputian web of regional commitments.
Instead, it likely bid on a host of less expensive regional slices of spectrum and made sure that the total amount was more than what was bid for the C block.
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