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The deal reached at the World Trade Organization’s ministerial conference in Bali this month was a historic step forward – with an estimated benefit to the UK of $1 billion.
At a recent news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, Modi vowed to “continue working” to reduce emissions, “above and beyond the Paris accord.”
Next month, French President Emmanuel Macron will host a conference to mark the two-year anniversary of the Paris agreement.
We need to build an arc of ambition across these events that can, in the words of our friend Tony de Brum, the late Marshallese foreign minister and untiring climate warrior at the Paris conference, deliver a pathway to survival for the most vulnerable.
The catchphrase at the Bonn conference was “further, faster, and together.”
And, at a press conference, he said that women should not roam around without male escorts.
This commentary is based on an address delivered on October 17, 2015, at a conference at Columbia University honoring Joseph Stiglitz for a half-century of teaching.
To build on that progress, GPE will hold a financing conference, co-hosted by the Senegalese and French governments, on February 8, 2018, in Dakar.
The August conference, appropriately named GLACIER, will feature an address by President Barack Obama.
Finally, in October 2016, the UN General Assembly’s First Committee, which is responsible for international peace and security, voted “to convene in 2017 a United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.”
The new resolution’s instructions are straightforward: “States participating in the conference” should “make their best endeavors to conclude as soon as possible a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.”
Post-Davos DepressionDAVOS – I’ve been attending the World Economic Forum’s annual conference in Davos, Switzerland – where the so-called global elite convenes to discuss the world’s problems – since 1995.
Drafting a new constitutional treaty would probably require even more time than was needed for the current proposal, and it is also unlikely that the necessary changes could be introduced through an intergovernmental conference.
In other words, the current “pause for reflection” is not the time to change the draft’s text (although the intergovernmental conference could move the third part, which harmonizes the earlier treaties, to an annex).
With or without a nuclear deal, Iran, which was disinvited from the Geneva II conference on Syria, because of its rejection of the conference’s US-inspired terms of reference, aspires to challenge America’s policies and represent an alternative path for the region.
Start-Up SoupNEW YORK – Last month I was in Kyiv, speaking at a conference focused on entrepreneurs.
Both the official minutes of the rate-setting meeting and Chairman Janet Yellen in her press conference mentioned heightened uncertainties abroad, including weakness in the Chinese economy, as key reasons to delay the Fed’s increase in interest rates.
To the protesters, these seemed to be policies imposed by an out-of-touch metropolitan elite, many of whose members had recently received a large cut in wealth taxes, which was introduced following business leaders’ successful lobbying of the finance minister at a conference held alongside the Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival.
The improbable theme that Russian President Vladimir Putin chose for the conference is energy security.
The IMF was in summer mode, and all of the consultations required complicated conference calls from remote locations.
That is the approach May took on her visit to Washington, DC, when she stood by silently as Trump openly declared his support for the use of torture at their joint press conference.
Some Council members, unhappy with Trichet’s dovish stance at the December press conference, made their displeasure known via the press soon after.
The consensus alleged at the December press conference simply did not exist.
Iran’s participation in an international peace conference is an absolute necessity, if only to test Rowhani’s seriousness.
During the Afghanistan conference in Bonn in 2001, Iran behaved in a pragmatic, results-oriented way – an approach that went completely unrewarded by the US.
This helped undermine the role of the British pound internationally and catapulted the US dollar to the fore – particularly after the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, at which it was agreed that countries would hold their reserves in dollars as well as gold.
The climate-change conference in Copenhagen last December illustrated this decline, as it was the four main emerging countries – China, India, Brazil, and South Africa – that held the key negotiations in which US President Barack Obama actively intervened.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference will begin the work of adapting the NPT to our rapidly changing world.
The report consists of 20 proposals to be decided on at this year's NPT review conference, and ends with proposed decisions to be taken after 2025.
Putin’s Trump CardNEW YORK – At his annual year-end press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin was as informal, audacious, and offensive as his favorite American presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
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