In the given question, a passage with seven blanks labeled (A) – (G) is given. You are required to fill the correct word in the blanks.

In 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia was signed, ending 30 years of war across Europe and bringing about the sovereignty of states. The rights of states to control and defend their own territory became the core ___(A)___  of our global political order, and it has remained unchallenged since. In 2010, a delegation of countries – including Syria and Russia – came to an obscure agency of the United Nations with a strange request: to ___(B)___  those same sovereign borders onto the digital world. “They wanted to allow countries to ___(C)___ internet addresses on a country by country basis, the way country codes were originally assigned for phone numbers,” says Hascall Sharp, an independent internet policy consultant.

After a year of negotiating, the ___(D)___ came to nothing: creating such boundaries would have allowed nations to exert tight controls over their own citizens, ___(E)___ the open spirit of the internet as a borderless space free from the dictates of any individual government. Nearly a decade on, that borderless spirit seems like a ___(F)___ memory. The nations who left the UN empty-handed had not been ___(G)___ of the notion that you could put a wall around your corner of cyberspace. They’ve simply spent the past decade pursuing better ways to make it happen.