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When EU officials meet together or draft internal documents, they use only the “working languages”: French and, more often, English.
For starters, a draft withdrawal treaty between the UK and the EU is now close to completion, though both sides have made clear that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.
And if the liquidation rate for creditors’ common claims is defined as no lower than that at the time the draft restructuring plan was submitted for approval, compensation must be considered in the event that payment is delayed.
By contrast, candidates often address domestic issues in ways intended to demonstrate mastery of detail (sometimes even rolling out a draft program that is almost certain to be forgotten in the event of victory).
The fact that it took almost 50 years to draft and finally achieve the necessary ratification threshold demonstrates that something is very wrong with the modern system of multilateralism.
According to FOM, 51% of Russians support abolishing conscription, and 67% are against extending the age of eligibility for the draft.
The Russian military estimates the total number of draft dodgers to be close to 200,000.
Without India, it is hard to imagine a successful conclusion to the 2009 Copenhagen conference to draft a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol.
At the time that it advanced its draft war-powers legislation, the Senate said “no.”Instead, it proposed that Congress assume the authority to commit forces to combat without a war declaration except to forestall or respond to an armed attack on the US or to protect the evacuation of American citizens from foreign soil.
But he is also taking more extreme political action to protect the regime: he has now ordered, by presidential decree (rather than by referendum, as the constitution requires), a constituent assembly, to be chosen on July 30, to draft a new “communal” constitution.
At last month’s OAS General Assembly in Mexico, 14 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bahamas, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, the United States, Peru, St. Lucia, Uruguay, and Paraguay) proposed a draft resolution on how to initiate a dialogue with the Venezuelan regime – to no avail.
In this climate, Dutch Prime Minister Peter Balkenende, still bogged down in his country’s “no” vote on the EU’s draft constitutional treaty in 2005, has been seeking to win British, Czech, and Polish support for measures to make it possible to diminish the EU’s areas of responsibility.
The Bonn Conference of December 2001, which was called to draft a new Afghan constitution, excluded the vanquished.
He can draft and help shape legislation that he believes to be in the public interest.
The regime’s draconian “law” (5/96) prohibits participants from criticizing the draft constitution; those who dare to challenge the regime face a 20-year prison sentence.
Sudan’s UN ambassador has called for a draft whose language is “more Sudan-friendly.”
The draft British-French resolution would provide for an authorized ceiling of 19,555 military troops and 6,400 police officers, with an estimated cost of over $2 billion during its first year.
But the UN draft says that we should “end malnutrition,” and the economists warn that while such an absolute goal sounds alluring, it is likely both implausibly optimistic and inefficient.
The French Socialists’ New European IdentityThe French Socialist Party may well have just saved ratification of the European Union’s draft Constitutional Treaty by France in next summer’s referendum.
In the national ratification referendum that followed, citizens were allowed to vote against the military-sponsored draft, but not to argue against it publicly.
With public opinion polls indicating that the AKP’s draft constitution, prepared by an academic committee, would be accepted through normal democratic procedures, the Chief Prosecutor acted to uphold the type of secularism enshrined in the 1982 Constitution, which many commentators liken to French secularism.
The draft EU constitution, which failed in the French and Dutch referenda last year, breathes the spirit of this approach.
But that would mean a substantial change in the direction of EU social policies, including revision of the draft constitution.
The Liberal Democrats aim to have their draft constitutional amendments ready for the 50th anniversary of the party’s founding this November.
The text of the draft resolution now in circulation contains no offensive language.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – a new human rights treaty that Russia helped draft, but has not yet signed – mandates these alternatives, and represents an opportunity for Russia to undertake crucial human rights reforms on this issue.
Hizb al ghad recently produced a 48-page draft constitution, aimed at reviving Egypt’s stagnant political life.
The draft constitution would transform Egypt into a parliamentary republic.
Negotiations are underway to revise a draft EU constitution.
The brutality of bilateralism prompted US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to draft the Atlantic Charter in 1941.
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