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So, how are Asia’s two giants to live in neighborly
accord
without encroaching on the other’s space?
That is precisely what happened in Colombia recently, when voters narrowly rejected a laboriously negotiated peace
accord
between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
No peace plan is perfect, and the Colombian
accord
was no exception.
And that would have been the case with the Colombian accord, which addresses a vast array of social and economic issues, including problems affecting indigenous communities, gender equality, gay rights, and the millions of people displaced by more than a half-century of fighting.
Rather than attempting to craft an
accord
based on legally binding restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions, the new approach relies on voluntary commitments by individual countries to rein in their contributions to climate change.
As a result, diplomats, fearing that another failed attempt to reach a global
accord
could discredit the entire negotiating process, have rescaled their ambitions.
But his visionary leadership does not stop at his ability to broker and conclude an
accord.
According to calculations by Britain’s Treasury, with the HIPC agreement Mozambique pays about the same proportion in debt service as it was paying before the
accord
was signed.
The joint declaration was modeled on Japan’s 2007 defense-cooperation
accord
with Australia – the only other country with which Japan, a US military ally, has a security-cooperation arrangement.
The India-Japan security declaration, in turn, spawned a similar Indian-Australian
accord
in 2009.
Second, all parties involved return to the negotiating table, with the parallel goals of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and concluding a peace
accord
to replace the 60-year-old Korean War Armistice Agreement.
If the
accord
enters into force, it will expand world trade, boost economic growth, and strengthen the United States’ ties with regional allies who would otherwise be tempted to move closer to China.
Is an
accord
reached in 1985 to address actions taken since 1971 really the best framework to resolve the issue in 2018?
By contrast, in Mozambique, another country marking 20 years since the signature of its peace accord, aid peaked at more than 80% of national income in 1992, was 55% ten years later, and remains higher than 20% today.
Clashes between these organizations put peace at risk nine months after the Chapultepec agreement, when the government proved unable to start the arms-for-land swap that was a key part of the
accord.
The US government’s recent statements in favor of a “political” agreement rather than a “legally binding”
accord
is yet another indication that official declarations alone will produce precisely such a result.
Any effective
accord
must help vulnerable countries, especially the poorest of the poor, adapt to climate change, which they did least to cause but suffer from first – and worst.
Fortunately, governments around the world are beginning to understand the challenge, and are expected to deliver – or at least make progress toward – two important agreements this year: a new global treaty to protect marine life in international waters, and a climate-change
accord
to safeguard the atmosphere.
There will be no Palestinian state this spring; nor will there be a global climate change pact or a new trade
accord
or an end to poverty or genocide or disease anytime soon.
Countries of every sort will face requests to do their part to overcome hurdles to a new global trade
accord.
With Colombia’s recent
accord
on agrarian reform having resolved the conflict’s root cause, the question of transitional justice has become the determining factor in whether the peace process will succeed.
In 2003, the United States and the European Union acquiesced to an
accord
that formally ended the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s civil war, which had claimed nearly four million lives, though the agreement lacked provisions to hold war criminals accountable.
The Indo-Australian agreement received little attention, but such is its significance that it mirrors key elements of Australia’s security
accord
with Japan – and that between India and Japan.
But Netanyahu has stubbornly insisted that the agreement is a strategic fiasco, citing its ambiguities in matters such as the mechanism of inspection, the number of centrifuges Iran will be allowed to maintain, and the conditions for re-imposing sanctions if Iran breaches the
accord.
If the world is to meet the temperature targets of the Paris
accord
and slow the pace of warming, every gas responsible for a warmer planet – not just CO2 – must be measured and appropriately managed.
A good place to start would be reshaping engagement with the United States, especially by deepening ties to states, cities, and investors that have adopted a more enlightened climate position than the Trump administration, which has signaled its intent to withdraw the US from the Paris
accord.
Argentina can use these opportunities to signal its intent to bring its commitments into line with the Paris accord, thereby potentially encouraging other countries to follow suit, while gaining the attention of investors keen to exploit Argentina’s low-carbon opportunities.
After Rabin’s assassination, the notion has been gaining ground that any Israeli-Palestinian
accord
would be the “peace of the exhausted,” not Rabin’s “peace of the brave.”
Both have reaffirmed their commitment to reducing carbon dioxide emissions under the Paris accord, and both object to Trump’s obstructive crusade on behalf of the coal industry.
President Clinton announced the accord;Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat signed nothing.
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