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Since China and 20 mostly Asian countries signed the AIIB’s initial memorandum of understanding last October, 36 other countries – including Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom – have joined as founding members.
According to China’s finance ministry, the AIIB’s founding members are to complete negotiations on the Articles of Agreement before July, with operations to begin by the end of the year.
While GDP will be the basic criterion for share allocation among the founding members, the finance ministry suggested in October that China does not necessarily need the 50% stake that its GDP would imply.
To be sure, the vision of a United States of Europe, espoused by many of those early federalists, looked backward to the founding of the US, rather than forward to a distinctive European venture.
The upcoming 70th anniversary celebration of the founding of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea will reportedly entail a large-scale military parade and a ballistic missile test.
The diplomatic Europe, incarnated by EU founding father Jean Monnet, took big, sensitive questions out of the sphere of popular politics and reduced them to manageable technical issues that diplomats could address through bureaucratic compromises behind closed doors.
I was its founding chairman, and I don’t think anyone considers it a success.
The countries of Europe are moving inexorably towards the "ever closer union" that the founding Treaty of Rome demands.
Peace was at the heart of the ambition of Europe’s founding fathers.
We need founding fathers – or mothers – and nations moved by a clear understanding of their interests and a popular enthusiasm for European integration.
Some of his remarks in recent weeks had suggested that he might reject outright the free movement of EU citizens – one of the union’s founding principles – and dare other European governments to oppose him.
For starters, there is little or nothing that other EU governments can concede on the free movement of people, which is enshrined in the founding document of European integration, the 1957 Treaty of Rome.
Despite some obvious differences between the founding of the Soviet Union and now, the historical parallel is too obvious to ignore.
The OECD’s founding convention calls on it to assist sound economic expansion and to contribute to growth in world trade on a multilateral, non-discriminatory basis.
Empowering the Other Half of Africa’s EconomyJOHANNESBURG – Julius Nyerere, the founding president of Tanzania, once said that “unity” will not make Africa rich, but “it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated.”
Think of the rhetoric of Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s, or of the founding fathers of the European Community.
He has elevated the isolated, traumatized “Jew” – still at odds with the “gentiles,” not to mention the “Arabs” – above the secular, liberal, and globalized “Israeli” envisioned by the country’s founding fathers.
The world today is markedly different from the world at the time of the founding of the World Bank and many of the regional development banks.
David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and the architect of Israel’s reconciliation with Germany, was a pragmatist through and through.
The fact that the Federal Reserve System comprises 12 regional reserve-holding banks reflects the fear at its founding that Wall Street financiers would otherwise capture monetary policy.
As British Prime Minister David Cameron said of the agreement with France: “This is the beginning of something new, not an end in itself” – words that echo those of Jean Monet, one of the Union’s founding fathers, on cooperation in the West.
Still, after its founding in 1991, Mercosur, the fractious South American trade bloc, managed to ease tensions between Argentina and Brazil, leading to a tenfold increase in bilateral trade.
In practice, Xi may well prove to be a nationalist; certainly, his generation, like the founding fathers of the People’s Republic, dreams of turning China into a stronger, more prosperous country.
It is fitting that strong and courageous women should help defeat a group whose founding myth rests on the violent subjugation of women.
India’s founding fathers wrote a constitution for their dreams; we have given passports to their ideals.
To understand where Pakistan’s massive problems began, we need to look back to the country’s founding.
That is why the Commission, citing the work of Fonna Forman, founding Director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego, makes recommendations about how governments might actively encourage and support human-rights education – something few countries currently do.
This year marks one more meaningful anniversary for Tibet: the 50th anniversary of the founding of what China calls the “Tibet Autonomous Region.”
A recent ten-year analysis of 300 start-up investments backed by venture capitalists in the United States showed that companies with a female founder performed 63% better than those with all-male founding teams.
That is why I am proud to be a founding Corporate Impact Champion of the UN Women’s HeForShe movement.
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