"We will continue patrols and law enforcement co-operation with the other three countries to safeguard shipping on the river, " he told China Daily.

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It set up three new UN conventions through which agreements to safeguard the global environment could be crafted.

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The government has decided to step in, and over the next three months it is seeking people's views on how to better to safeguard them.

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Unfortunately, despite the on-the-job foreign and defense policy training Mr. Obama has, in fact, received during his time in office over the past nearly three years, he still seems largely clueless about U.S. security interests - and what it takes to safeguard them.

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