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For example, if Trump decertifies the Iran nuclear deal on May 12, ahead of the summit, the move would almost certainly call into question America’s good faith and ability to honor negotiated international agreements.
The main concern is inflation, which the government has covered up and contained by precarious price agreements that will not last very long once Cristina takes over.
Addressing climate change, increased migration, and the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT) will require new, comprehensive international agreements to protect the interests of sovereign countries.
The Labor-led government of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres made a dramatic breakthrough towards that very goal in 1993, with the Oslo agreements for mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO.
On the contrary, the region is notable for a lack of meaningful regional agreements and institutions, particularly in the political-military and security spheres.
Many of these provisions are absent from international agreements currently in force – such as the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS accord – and from the bilateral free-trade agreements that the US itself has negotiated with a host of countries.
For copyrights, the US is demanding 95 years of protection after publication, or 120 years after creation, whereas TRIPS provides for 50 years and US agreements with Australia, Chile, Korea and Peru specify 70 years.
All three have negotiated intellectual-property agreements with the US, achieving what seemed like mutually agreeable levels of protection.
The conundrum is especially vexing for Chile, a country that already has bilateral trade agreements with every potential member of the TPP.
Precisely because of the urgent need to diversify their exports, Chile, Peru, and other middle-income countries could benefit tremendously from agreements like the TPP.
After the Oslo agreements were reached a decade ago, supporters of the peace process, in Israel and abroad, hoped that the PLO - an armed national liberation movement deeply enmeshed in terrorism - would transform itself into a responsible and viable political structure.
Most of the previous amendments relied on agreements between governing and opposition parties, and were not put to a popular vote.
Governments have two responsibilities – to lead by example, and to build international alliances and agreements that are enforceable and effective.
On a regional level, Rudd argues, the US and China could work on joint strategies to denuclearize and, ultimately, reunify the Korean Peninsula; tackle the lingering sore of Japan’s war history; harmonize regional trade agreements; and transform the East Asia Summit into a more complete Asia-Pacific Community.
During the last 20 years, the world has witnessed dramatic proliferation of regional and bilateral preferential trade agreements.
Indeed, bilateral trade flows covered by such agreements now amount to roughly half of the world’s imports, and have contributed significantly to the dramatic growth of trade.
Yet such agreements pose great dangers if they are not subject to effective WTO oversight.
A focus on preferential agreements would fragment the global trading system, rather than integrating it.
But this is the wrong way to go, for it might serve only to erode one of the few effective mechanisms in place to make multilateral agreements binding.
Inequality has increased, poverty has been reduced only slightly at best, employment remains stubbornly low, corruption, violence, crime, and political gridlock continue unabated, and foreign investment and free-trade agreements with the US have yet to deliver the goods.
Under the new electoral rules, seats are allotted to parties in proportion to votes, but a special provision induces parties to forge pre-electoral agreements: the pre-electoral coalition that wins the most votes receives a seat premium that ensures a comfortable majority in the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house).
Typically, the public sector must enter into contractual agreements with private firms not only to build the infrastructure, but also to operate it as a regulated monopoly or on a concession basis.
In the United States, Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is taking Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent, to task – quite credibly – for her close ties to Wall Street, eagerness to invade foreign lands, and readiness to embrace free-trade agreements that have undermined millions of workers’ living standards.
The new order's parts are the changes that took place in 1989 and 1991 and the arms agreements negotiated and signed between the end of 1989 and 1993, including the all-European Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty and the two Strategic Arms Reduction Treatise (START I and II) signed by the United States and Russia.
NATO expansion risks upsetting the network of understandings, assumptions and agreements on which this new security order rests.
Brinkmanship and broken agreements threaten to turn the referendum’s technical and political difficulties into yet another disaster for the country.
According to tripartite agreements between the governments of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, four of the largest camps in Pakistan are to be closed and all Afghans living there repatriated.
The stronger provisions of previous trade agreements, such as the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), have been dumped.
In short, it is beginning to look as though any success in the current round of trade talks will be based on agreements without substance.
The agreements we have achieved thus far are like signposts showing progress along the road to mutual economic prosperity.
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