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Recently, Russian and Ukrainian envoys agreed to a tentative limited ceasefire deal in the Black Sea that would temporarily halt targeting all commercial vessels in the region, as well as strikes on energy facilities after intense negotiations in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Though there are many reasons why rich countries are rich and poor countries are poor, a large modern contributing factor is emigration. The growth of interconnected global economies has allowed brain drain to materialize, which many developing regions have been grappling with in recent decades.
The international system is rooted in nation states and the competition that occurs among them. In the midst of the powers vying for influence lie politically neutral states. Often, a country not involved in a given conflict will act as a third-party mediator in peace processes.
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