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At a time when business has massive – perhaps even excessive – influence worldwide, companies, in their drive for profit or power, often disregard their own societal obligations.
East Europeans, struggling to fulfill the social welfare obligations they inherited from the communist era, cannot pay.
In addition, North Korea violated its treaty obligations and exploded two crude devices.
Nonetheless, Japan is eager to reestablish itself as a fully independent country, free of the guilt and obligations stemming from World War II.
Argentina has fulfilled its obligations to its citizens and to the creditors who accepted its restructuring.
Some analysts argue that, given guarantees of debt incurred by public corporations, the Greek government’s obligations are even higher.
But how reasonable is it if Greece does not have to fulfill its repayment obligations?
Equally worrisome are the security disputes that have flared up in the East and South China Seas, which, via treaty obligations, directly involve the US.
The failure of that effort is implicitly recognized in the guidelines, which indicate that they do not imply any new obligations under IMF surveillance.
NATO membership carries obligations, because situations may arise – and we have already experienced them – when NATO follows a United Nations appeal and conducts an out-of-area military intervention where, for example, genocide is being committed.
Indeed, the proper context of the discussion is European countries' obligations under international refugee law.
Britain will also need to pay for previous EU obligations, with figures as high as £60 billion, but will not benefit from future opportunities.
Their debts and obligations are similarly fixed.
Much of it went into US treasuries and the obligations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
At the same time, periphery countries held a lot of dollar-denominated obligations which they had to repay when they could not roll them over.
Meanwhile, the bulk of its obligations are social security and health care, which cannot be inflated away.
There are sure to be numerous disagreements over whether the parties in general, and Iran in particular, are meeting their obligations.
And Eurobonds were quickly rejected, because they would have created open-ended mutualized-debt obligations.
Indeed, after nearly two decades of trying, the best climate deal that countries have been able to agree on is one that imposes no real obligations, sets no binding emissions targets, and requires no specific actions by anyone.
Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi declared in June 2004 that Iran “won’t accept any new obligations,” and must “be recognized by the international community as a member of the nuclear club.”
Other countries will listen to Mexico only if Mexico abides by its obligations with respect to labor, the environment, free and fair elections, private property, and human rights.
If sound policies are implemented and better institutions established – which does not mean only more austerity and better supervision of banks, budgets, and deficits – and growth is restored, these countries will be able to meet their debt obligations, and there will be no need to call upon the guarantees.
At the same time, they will have to monitor and disclose fiscal obligations from projects that involve private participation, such as what Chile now does routinely.
But illiquid real estate cannot solidly underpin a stable market for overnight obligations forever.
But WHO has never proposed such a definition to its governing body, the World Health Assembly, presumably because some of its member states would reject the definition and the accompanying obligations to promote it domestically.
The EU, however, has insisted that during the transition period all of the current obligations of EU membership must continue, including budget contributions, free movement of labor, and enforcement of EU legal judgments.
A crushing election victory will give May the necessary authority to negotiate a long transition, despite the objections of anti-EU extremists, and will persuade more moderate Euroskeptics that, with Brexit now guaranteed, the precise timing of various EU obligations is less important.
No one knew the real value of credit-default swaps and of the various tranches of collateralized debt obligations.
This clash of interests contravenes basic principles of international law, namely that countries’ trade deals must not conflict with their obligations under human-rights treaties.
Given policymakers’ reluctance to contemplate write-downs, specifically of debt held by official lenders, governments have been forced to levy high taxes to service their obligations, in turn depressing investment.
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