<P> Senior Analyst at the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, Sabhat Khan, argued that the Index should "involve more context on security environments ." Referring to the UAE's GPI ranking in particular, Khan argued that "the measurement usually used by such rankings is crude data without contextualising them;" for example, the UAE must bolster its security apparatus to respond to turbulence in neighbouring countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, which all rank at the very bottom of the GPI . </P> <P> During a Peace Forum in August 2017, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said that "receiving such high praise from an institute that once named this country the most violent in the world is extremely significant...My administration will keep fighting to protect all Honduran citizens ." The President has recently launched an initiative to build a series of safe parks across Honduras and hopes to see further improvement reflected in future GPI rankings . </P> <P> Malaysia ranked 29th in the 2017 GPI . The country's Communications and Multimedia Minister, Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak said that this ranking along with Malaysia's high place in the 2017 World Happiness Report was proof that the "government's efforts have made Malaysia a safe and prosperous country ." He also admitted, "there's still much room for improvement to make Malaysia the best among the better countries and that's what we're doing now ." </P> <P> After the release of the 2016 GPI, the Botswanan Office of the President released a proud statement, "in this year's Index, Botswana was ranked as 28 out of 163 countries, up 3 places from last year . This continues to place Botswana above over half of the European region countries surveyed as well as all five of the Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council...in addition Botswana was one of only five countries, to achieve a perfect score in the domestic and international conflict domain ." </P>

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