California is now talking about setting up a European-style emissions-trading scheme with north-eastern states.
The north-eastern states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were the hardest hit.
This week Bill Clinton vowed to create a home-heating-oil reserve for the north-eastern states.
While it might appear the Middle Eastern states are stepping each other's toes, they believe the developments are complementary.
For example, contracts drawn up in Malaysia may not be recognised in Middle Eastern states, taking months to resolve.
The eastern states have around 11m voters, fewer than in North Rhine-Westphalia alone.
They have promised not to disrupt state elections to be held in February in Nagaland (and two other north-eastern states).
Neighbouring India is also negotiating full transit facilities with Dhaka to transport goods to its nearly landlocked north-eastern states through Bangladesh.
Although a number of states saw a drop in the number of poor, some north-eastern states saw a rise in poverty levels.
BBC: 'Sharp drop' in India poverty due to welfare programmes
For herbicide-tolerant soybeans, yields in the Prairie states were about 25% higher, yet in the Eastern states they were down by about 8%.
Besides these two countries, the emerging economic giant India also wants access to Chittagong port to send goods to its seven north-eastern states.
After Irene last year, approximately 50, 000 lineworkers and crews came from as far away as the West Coast and Canada to help in 14 eastern states.
All reasons, along with hefty public subsidies, why more than 1, 700 foreign firms, from America's Dow Chemical to Japan's Sumitomo, have invested in the eastern states.
Rio's leaders point out that the state's oil money balances out its relatively paltry share of federal tax transfers, which flow more copiously to poorer north-eastern states.
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Until Kosovo, the Social Democrats in the eastern states were being tempted to form more coalition state governments with the ex-communists after the elections due later this year.
But he has made it clear that, in return, he expects support from the eastern states for his controversial pension reforms, which should go before parliament this autumn.
Yet both Delhi and Dhaka say that their recent agreement to open the first direct overland link between the far-eastern states of India and Bangladesh is hugely significant.
Is social media adding grist to the rumour mills that have triggered the exodus of workers from north-eastern states living in Bangalore and other cities in India?
Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three north-eastern states - Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe - after a series of deadly attacks by militant groups.
"The terrible hurricanes in the US have had an impact on our performance in the south-eastern states, " chief financial officer Nick Rose told investors at a conference in London.
France, which hands over the rotating EU presidency to the Czech Republic in January, needs to win the Eastern states' support ahead of an EU summit on 11-12 December.
Although home to less than a fifth of all Germans, and far fewer foreigners than the west, the eastern states accounted for nearly half the 746 violent crimes linked to far-right extremists last year.
Today, King Kurt, as he is known with a mixture of awe, affection and disapproval of his authoritarian ways, rightly proclaims that, of the five eastern states, Saxony is by far the most dynamic.
The poor north-eastern states voted overwhelmingly for him.
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Once the transit agreement is finalised, then it will be cheaper for Indian traders to send goods by ship along Bangladeshi rivers up to the border and then take them by road to the north-eastern states.
"We're pleased that the Eastern states have become much stronger, that a lot has been put into action and that Germany has become culturally richer, " German Chancellor Angela Merkel told CNNI's "Connect the World" on Monday.
The security of access to financing has made the euro area even more attractive to the EU's eastern states, some of which have had to fall back on rescue loans or precautionary credit lines from the IMF.
That nickname has accrued to I-95, a highway running along America's east coast from Miami all the way to Maine, which gun traffickers have long used to haul guns bought in southern states with relatively lax purchasing laws to sell in north-eastern states such as New York and New Jersey, which more strongly regulate gun sales.
After meeting with the countries of Group I (Western European and North American States) Group II (Eastern European States), Group IV a (African States), as well as Latin American and Caribbean countries (GRULAC), Irina Bokova met with members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) during a working lunch.
The snow was expected to move later in the day into the eastern United States.
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