Commitments
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The address also embraced social welfare (“The
commitments
we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us”) and the idea of fraternité (“preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action”).
As a result, a diplomatic crisis by October is likely, with Turkey claiming that the EU has failed to honor its
commitments.
The question now is whether each party will honor its
commitments.
Why should the rebels believe that the government will honor its
commitments
once they no longer represent a threat?
During the past three years, the world's leaders have promised concrete action to cut global poverty by one half by the year 2015, in a series of
commitments
known as the Millennium Development Goals.
Among Colau’s
commitments
to the people of Barcelona was a local tax cut for small businesses and households, assistance to the poor, and the construction of housing for 15,000 refugees – a large share of the total number that Spain was meant to absorb from frontline states like Greece and Italy.
First, if the US falls short on meeting its regional
commitments
– for example, to engage in capacity building with partners confronting China’s aggressive assertion of territorial claims in the South China Sea – networked partnerships can help allies to compensate.
We must stay focused on building and maintaining a cohesive architecture for meeting the SDGs and other international commitments, such as those embodied in the Paris climate agreement.
It seems that Latin America has abandoned the principles, commitments, and foundations of full regional integration.
The Russia he envisions will be a great power once more, but great in the ways that a truly modern society must be: in its democratic commitments, its economy, and its domestic tranquillity.
As it stands, only wealthy young people in the Arab world, without personal
commitments
such as families and jobs, can pursue continuous learning, in the form of graduate degrees from top universities.
Individuals who have a strong sense of civicism can make decisions based on more than mere patriotism when it comes to national
commitments.
Where spending cuts should, in principle, help to dampen inflation, European governments, like that of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, are backtracking on their budgetary
commitments.
It’s time for Obama to make good on
commitments
he made in Prague in 2009, take up Reagan’s mantle as Great Communicator, and persuade the US Senate to formalize America’s adherence to the CTBT.
Moreover, to end TB completely, Africa will need new and sustained financial
commitments
from the public and private sectors.
But even as
commitments
are made and declarations signed, we must remember that in Africa, the battle is far from over.
As a result, the US and several emerging economies made
commitments
to reduce emissions for the first time.
This cost will be modest relative to the size of their economies, and any successful climate-change agreement will require similar
commitments.
But the hard part is yet to come: turning the agreement’s vague political
commitments
into concrete action to mitigate global warming.
While the voluntary obligations contained in the Paris agreement are important, what is really needed is legally binding
commitments
(based, of course, on scientific calculations, modeling, and simulations).
After all, the Trump administration has made it clear that it does not intend to fulfill the global leadership
commitments
that Mnuchin’s predecessors have overseen.
A program offering rewards of $1-5 billion in contracts or deployment
commitments
can generate many times that value in private-sector R&D.
Annan named a high-level panel of eminent persons to look into issues of peace and security, while a parallel group of economists, led by Jeffrey Sachs, studied what was needed to fulfill the development
commitments
made by world leaders at the Millennium Summit in 2000.
Governments may sign treaties and make solemn
commitments
to subordinate their fiscal policy to the wishes of the EU as a whole (or to be more precise, to the wishes of Germany and the European Central Bank); but, in the end, the people may reject any adjustment program that “Brussels” (meaning Berlin and Frankfurt) might want to impose.
With popular resistance to paying for profligate southern Europeans rising in Germany and Holland, governments there might be forced to ask their people whether they want to pay the huge costs implied by their
commitments
to bail out eurozone members that are unwilling or unable to pay.
The right approach is to be constant, to stress long-term commitments, and to speak in a calm and measured way, understanding that good China policy is about relationships, not transactions.
Africa needs additional resources, over and above existing aid commitments, to adapt to climate change.
As this year’s DATA Report from the Africa advocacy group ONE underscores, many donors are honoring their aid commitments, despite the economic downturn.
Although American
commitments
to Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, and Cambodia differed mightily, history reveals that despite immediate costs to America’s reputation, disengagement ultimately redounded to America’s advantage.
The same should hold with respect to the new UN: to join and remain a UN member would require respecting the international
commitments
undertaken by each state, beginning with the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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