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Establishing the concept of sovereign obligations as a pillar of the international order will take decades of consultations and negotiations – and even then, its acceptance and impact will be uneven.
Realistically, it will be difficult to forge agreement on what specific sovereign obligations states have and how they should be enforced.
Economic cooperation entails a solid set of pre-agreed rules guiding the functioning of the internal market, establishing community obligations, and protecting the free movement of goods, capital, services, and labor (the EU’s “four freedoms”).
In terms of security cooperation (and its analogues, defense and foreign policy), obligations are softer and institutions are less developed.
Turning Europe into a fortress, undermining freedom of movement across the continent, tightening borders, and ignoring legal – as well as moral – obligations to protect the vulnerable is a failing strategy.
Yet, to the Brexiteers’ apparent surprise, the EU could not and would not allow a country to enjoy the full benefits of membership without accepting the obligations that come with it.
The challenge is to balance our obligations to all of our stakeholders, both customers and shareholders, including the pension funds that help millions of people around the world save for retirement.
And Japan has so far failed to live up to its treaty obligations to clean up between 700,000 and two million chemical weapons that were abandoned in China by the Japanese army at the end of World War II, another potential flash point if any of these weapons causes casualties in China.
Yet I felt two strong obligations for the future.
Mexico Turns a CornerMEXICO CITY – Years of political squabbling and divided governments weakened state institutions in Mexico, greatly hampering their ability to meet their basic obligations to the country’s citizens: to foster economic growth, to create well-paying jobs, to provide quality education and social services, and to guarantee public safety.
Greece thus lacked a mechanism to negotiate a social compact to cut wages, pensions, and other obligations in an equitable way.
Finally, technocratic committees must never supplant societal or personal responsibility for sensitive issues involving life and death; ethical obligations cannot be offloaded so easily.
In recent centuries, the nation has been the imagined community for which most people were willing to make sacrifices, and even to die, and most leaders have seen their primary obligations to be national in scope.
But good leaders today are often caught between their personal cosmopolitan inclinations and their more traditional obligations to the citizens who elected them.
During any negotiations with Cuba’s leaders, European politicians and diplomats should remind their Cuban partners of their obligations.
Moreover, after lengthy negotiations, Russia recently reached an agreement with the World Trade Organization to join, implying the need to comply with all relevant obligations regarding transparency and trading rules.
Indeed, the Chinese authorities only recently showed what they think of treaty obligations and of the “golden age” of Sino-British relations (much advertised by British ministers), by abducting a British citizen (and four other Hong Kong residents) on the city’s streets.
Their cash balances are extremely high, interest payments on debt are low, and principal obligations have been termed out.
To finance this, the government passed a series of amnesties, forgiving penalties for past tax evasions, allowing underground business to come above ground without paying its obligations, and allowing Italians to bring capital illicitly stashed abroad back into the country.
We think of the organization in which we work as if it was a person with rights, obligations, values, reputation, and temperament, on whose behalf managers regard themselves as acting.
Now, boards and executive teams must consider carefully how to balance their short-term commercial objectives not only with their long-term business prospects, but also with their fundamental ethical obligations.
A second agreement would establish a “stand-still transition,” whereby the UK would retain the benefits of EU membership, but also the obligations, such as contributing to the EU budget, allowing for the free movement of people, and adhering to European court rulings.
A major reason is that reaching high-income status demands a strong network of modern institutions that define individuals’ rights and obligations, enable market exchange and non-market interactions, and enforce the rule of law by resolving disputes fairly.
Because such payments are more than Russia can handle and the government has proved incapable of renegotiating the payment schedule or of writing off some of the Soviet debt, it continuously fails to meet its repayment obligations.
In times of distress, private-sector mistakes often become public-sector obligations.
Working with the Europeans and the Chinese, he could have threatened Iran, and companies doing business there, with comprehensive and effective sanctions had there been evidence that the country was failing to live up to its denuclearization obligations.
If the fallout of the New York decision is an extensive Argentine default on other obligations, foreign trade will become practically impossible, many goods will become scarce, and domestic inflation will increase further.
It was essentially driven by politics: the ECB was picking up the slack for policymakers who were unwilling to fulfill their obligations.
This behavior is symptomatic of the lack of respect Sudan’s government has shown towards its obligations.
With the euro’s introduction boosting intra-European trade and lowering inflation in many member states, fiscal obligations were simply ignored.
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