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An independent
commission
certified the 51 countries of the World Health Organization European Region free of polio.
By both omission and commission, the West cut the ground from under Russian political liberalism, enabling the ascendancy of Putinism.
According to settled procedure, a UN
commission
will first judge whether the claims have merit.
To avoid the perception that the US decided to turn the bases over to Japan just when their military benefits were diminishing, and to ensure that the move represented America’s recommitment to the alliance, a joint
commission
would have to be established to manage the transfer.
The edict against Rushdie is still hanging out there, even if Iran says that it won’t
commission
or pay anyone to carry out the threat.
Verification relies on 18 on-site inspections, notification of forces in and out of service, missile-test flight information and other data exchanges, plus a consultative
commission
to iron out compliance.
A newly created Minister of Social Cohesion has begun to
commission
studies documenting discrimination.
To this end, an independent
commission
– composed of a mixture of national and international experts – should be established to build on the work of the unofficial Turkish Armenian Reconciliation
Commission.
Last month, a pipeline carrying Egyptian natural gas to Israel and Jordan was bombed – the 15th such attack since Mubarak’s regime was toppled – and remains out of
commission.
An EU-appointed mediation
commission
that includes former Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski and former European Parliament President Pat Cox has proposed a solution.
It is ten years since an international
commission
that I co-chaired gave birth to the concept of the Responsibility to Protect (“RtoP”), and six years since more than 150 heads of state and government endorsed it unanimously at the UN’s World Summit in 2005.
The best way to make that point would be to revive the dormant debate about adopting narrow guidelines for military intervention, as recommended by my
commission
and Secretary-General Annan prior to the UN vote in 2005.
That transition will be a tricky one, because the governments that dominate the UN
commission
for human rights (CHR) are increasingly trying to protect themselves - and their allies - from any scrutiny or criticism.
Such countries go out of their way to secure seats on the
commission
and then actively work to build alliances with pliable governments.
In addition, they have developed a number of clever procedural ploys to undermine the
commission.
Their resolve to render the
commission
toothless is not matched by a balancing impulse on the part of the traditional promoters of human rights in the West.
Embezzlement, Galbraith observed, has the property that “weeks, months, or years elapse between the
commission
of the crime and its discovery.
Indeed, it will be a central theme at this week’s financing
commission
summit in Oslo.
From the judiciary to the electoral commission, the regime’s control of the state became total and uncompromising – an outcome that Venezuela’s Latin American neighbors did nothing to resist.
The CCAMLR is governed by a
commission
of 24 member states – including Argentina, Australia, Chile, Japan, Norway, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Ukraine, the United States and the European Union – that meets annually in Hobart, Australia, to discuss new fishing regulations concerning marine species in the Southern Ocean.
Recent examples include the recommendation of the Simpson-Bowles
commission
– tasked in 2010 with charting a fiscal-consolidation path – to cut real spending growth by precise amounts, without saying where the cuts would be made.
The agenda and timetable for convergence must be set by NAFTA's elected leaders, but implementation should be in the hands of a new
commission.
Possible subjects for that
commission'
s agenda include: financial, fiscal and customs harmonization; transport infrastructure; natural resources and regional development.
Confronting the Migrant Threat to the EUMADRID – The European Union loves giving itself ultimatums, whether it is the two-year deadline for Brexit negotiations or European
Commission
President Jean-Claude Juncker’s declaration, upon taking office, that his was a “last-chance commission.”
Within three years the US had an official report on the causes of the events of 9/11; the well-resourced expert
commission
that produced it identified the weaknesses of America’s national-security agencies and provided recommendations for addressing them.
Although India is right to avoid taking financial liberalization to the extreme that the United States did in the decades before the recent meltdown, it can do quite a lot without assuming inappropriate risks, as a
commission
headed by Rajan detailed a few years back.
Juncker’s feckless “last-chance commission” will be succeeded by a “next-chance commission” – one that may fall even more short of the mark.
The social media companies, wary of coming under attack for censorship, want to avoid regulation by legislators who criticize them for both sins of omission and
commission.
He has intimidated the judiciary into ignoring institutional checks on his power, so that constitutionally independent agencies, such as the electoral
commission
and the central bank, are now under his direct control.
Two years ago, the silence was broken briefly by Ken Attafuah, who directs Ghana's truth and reconciliation commission, charged with investigating rights violations during two decades of dictatorships.
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