Obligations
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China’s suspension of North Korean coal imports alone – part of its
obligations
under the Security Council resolution – will reduce the North’s export earnings by an estimated $400 million this year (while also costing China a pretty penny).
Making matters worse, Trump seems keen to follow through on his threat to withdraw from the Iran deal – or at least to add new sanctions – despite a lack of evidence that Iran has not fulfilled its
obligations.
As the price of oil collapsed in 2014, the government, having lost access to capital markets because of its profligacy, chose to continue servicing its bonded debt and default on its
obligations
to importers and most non-financial creditors.
Venezuela’s lack of market access means that it cannot roll over its obligations, except under conditions that worsen its solvency, as PDVSA is trying to do.
But much more is at stake than a simple commercial disagreement in which Al Jazeera is attempting to enforce Egypt’s
obligations
under a bilateral investment treaty with Qatar.
The station is making the case that these infringements on freedom of expression mean that Egypt is in violation of its
obligations
under international human-rights treaties.
With financial panic in retreat, unpaid salaries, pensions, and other basic state
obligations
are being met.
The EU should also negotiate a framework document in the context of the next Partnership and Cooperation Agreement negotiations in order to clarify the
obligations
contained in the Treaty, in particular its Transit Protocol.
When interest and principal on British government debt come due, the British government can always create additional pounds to meet those
obligations.
But as the conference approached, a growing number of countries, led by the US, complained that the Compact enabled the imposition of binding
obligations
in the future, thus infringing on their sovereignty.
By establishing a framework of overlapping soft and hard obligations, the Paris accord evaded objections that had previously blocked progress.
Perhaps the age of irresponsibility is over; perhaps we no longer have to shop until we drop; perhaps the compact between the individual and the government, in which both are understood to have
obligations
as well as rights, can be restored; perhaps the state will cease to treat its citizens like maladjusted adolescents, of whom nothing much can be demanded and to whom everything is permitted.
The concept of a “social contract” based on rights and
obligations
– the essential values that constitute the most important precondition for effective environmental protection – goes largely ignored.
In Europe, the absence of a political union – considered a necessary precondition for sharing debt
obligations
and, thus, putting the euro on a sound footing – is widely held to lie at the root of the continent’s crisis.
And what about the acquis communautaire, the body of law that enshrines member states’
obligations
not just in terms of economic policies, but also in terms of democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental human rights?
A listed SOE could therefore continue to perform social
obligations
unrelated to its core business, with shareholders unable to interfere.
Empirical evidence supports this transition, and international human-rights
obligations
compel such a move.
But if it collapses after several years of perverse macroeconomic policies required by countries’ treaty obligations, the end, when it comes, will be regarded not as a calamity, but as a liberation.
It fundamentally contradicts our organizations’ core principles and
obligations.
Hamilton estimated that the federal government could raise enough revenues to pay approximately 4% interest on the total amount of debt to be serviced – significantly less than the 6% yield on the existing
obligations.
Under the first, more developed proposal, banks would undertake large
obligations
via long-term bonds, which would be paid only if their operations are sound.
This could be achieved by unfunded pension obligations, which do not require that banks set aside the money in advance.
As a result, bank managers would have a personal financial stake in ensuring that the risky
obligations
do not blow up, as they did during the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
If the
obligations
deteriorated and the bank failed, the managers would be left unpaid.
Because the
obligations
would be guaranteeing the rest of the bank’s operations, the managers would, it is hoped, be especially vigilant in ensuring that basic operations were safe.
Today’s realities call for an updated operating system—World Order 2.0 – based on “sovereign obligation,” the notion that sovereign states have not just rights but also
obligations
to others.
Governments would have to act consistently within this regime as part of their sovereign
obligations
– or face sanctions or retaliation.
Trade agreements are, by definition, pacts of reciprocal sovereign
obligations
regarding tariff and nontariff barriers.
When a party believes that
obligations
are not being met, it has recourse to arbitration through the World Trade Organization.
The challenge, therefore, is to define appropriate sovereign
obligations
in these areas in future trade pacts, and to create mechanisms to hold governments accountable.
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