As it stands, Mr Kostunica's plan will not be accepted by the big powers either.
That is not an outcome that will keep the big powers working together at the Security Council.
Both the big powers are taking sides between Chambliss and Martin, and this can be a very important race.
The big powers in the region--the United States, Japan, Russia and China--all appeared to be on board, for once.
The attention given to North Korea and the big powers left many of the core ASEAN members feeling like wallflowers.
In the wake of this failure, will the WTO remain useful enough to the big powers to retain their support and patronage?
It certainly warrants the creative attention of the big powers, the states in the region and the combatants on the ground in Syria.
START-2 bogged down by arguments over missile defence, would-be proliferators can argue that the big powers have already breached the second part of this bargain.
This must be a little like the pioneering days of steam or aviation: the earliest creations have passed the first credibility test and now the big powers of industry are getting interested.
The big powers that are eager to promote stability will also have to join in the balancing act, trying to achieve harmony between strategic interests, the aspirations of the peoples concerned and the means available.
Some people may be sceptical about how independent the War Crimes Tribunal would be if the big powers decided that in the interests of a peaceful transition in Serbia they did not want Mr Milosevic prosecuted.
America moved heavily into Central Asia for the war in Afghanistan, and the two big powers have eyed each other warily in the region ever since.
As well as convergence, the big tech powers are in each other's faces.
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He concedes that Brazil does not agree with the other big emerging powers on everything, but they do share an interest in trying to change the way that international institutions and the world economy are run.
Assuming that these dangers can be avoided, how might the change in America's thinking affect the balance of its relations with the other two big powers, Russia and China?
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It was the last time these two national powers from the Big East Conference would meet in a scheduled game.
The region's two big powers, Iran and Saudi Arabia, raise the tension by accusing each other of stirring up the unrest.
He warned about the cost of such a big transfer of powers to the Welsh government and the assembly at a time when the size of the civil service is being reduced.
One of the big issues is the role played by other powers in the region.
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In the long run, the big factors in world demand are the emergent industrial powers (China, India) and the unslakable thirst of the American motor culture.
Today, Southeast Asia is largely free from divisions born of colonialism and the Cold War, and ASEAN is respected, not manipulated, by big powers (most of the time, at least).
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Lines in the sea, once drawn by big powers, are now subject to reasoned debate.
However, hotels around the Rtanj mountain in Serbia, a site rumoured to have magical powers, were booked out for the big date.
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And it will not just be over the big, predictable issues such as the decommissioning of paramilitaries' weapons or the powers of the cross-border bodies in which the assembly's leaders will sit alongside ministers from the Irish Republic.
The coalition is openly discussing the need for big efficiency savings in the health service and Mr Cameron has pledged to seek powers back from Brussels if the euro-zone crisis reorders the EU's architecture.
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