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According to senior Pakistani officials – including Sartaj Aziz, a key adviser on foreign affairs and national security – there was no agreement in the works when the stories appeared.
For some time, senior military officials have been concentrating on rooting out terrorism at home, and they have scored some impressive successes.
On the contrary, the National People’s Congress has approved a major overhaul of China’s governance structure, creating a new National Supervision Commission to check corruption by all Chinese officials, regardless of their affiliations or status in the Communist Party of China.
Like Xi and Wang, officials at these institutions are dedicated, competent, and experienced reformers.
With India also a key member, this newly consolidated grouping – the only meeting that brings together the region’s most senior government officials with an open-ended agenda – is set to become by far the most effective of the alphabet soup of Asia’s regional and sub-regional organizations.
Recent events – the growing number of high-level defections from the regime’s leadership, the killing of three of President Bashar al-Assad’s most senior officials in a bomb attack, and the rebellion’s spread into Damascus itself – suggest that, after a long period of gradual decline, the Assad regime is now approaching collapse or implosion.
This pattern of steady erosion has now ended, with senior military and other officials joining the opposition in increasing numbers.
The transfer decision was taken by the Ministry’s senior passport officials, while Swaraj was out of the country.
The only beneficiaries of government officials’ telling Microsoft how to make computer software are Microsoft’s competitors -- and not competition.
To decide whether Mladic acted on Serbia’s account when he was planning and ordering the Srebrenica massacre, the Court demanded proof that Serbian officials sent him specific “instructions” to commit this act of genocide.
ATLANTA – Ever since the 2016 US presidential election, with its revelations about Russian meddling, European officials have been on the lookout for similar attacks.
Any delay in completing reforms will ultimately slow the process of real convergence that EU officials rightly hold dear.
But imagine the outrage with which Trump’s supporters would greet a “taxpayer bailout” of a foreign country or Mexican officials’ anger over having to secure assistance from the same Trump administration responsible for their country’s ills.
We are deprived of it due to state treachery, illegal agreements, and corrupt and incompetent officials.
In any case, instability is unlikely because our state officials, at all levels, will forget about Kuchma the minute the vote-count tolls his defeat.
The debt dilemmas in Europe and the US prove yet again that elected officials will ignore long-run costs to achieve short-run benefits, and will act only when forced, in a doomed effort to circumvent the laws of economics and revoke the laws of arithmetic.
Though some have recommended an ill-advised expansion by NATO in the post-Soviet space, most are limiting themselves to support for symbolic sanctions, such as visa bans that affect a dozen or so Russian officials.
Another bill in the pipeline would forbid anyone under the age of 18 from converting to another religion, and would require even an adult seeking to convert to gain the permission – subject to repeated interrogation – of local officials.
In 2011, after the US and its allies convinced Russia’s former president, Dmitri Medvedev, not to block a United Nations resolution to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, they launched a full-scale military bombardment of Libya, which helped to bring down the regime – a move that Russian officials called “deceptive.”
For example, late last year, the US Congress imposed sanctions against Russian officials implicated in human-rights abuses, prompting Russia to institute a ban on adoptions by American families.
Instead of acknowledging geopolitical shifts, and adjusting their relationship accordingly, US and Russian officials remain committed to an obsolete post-Cold War dynamic.
Wherever corruption is endemic – say, Russia, China, and much of the Middle East – many officials may view tax havens not as a revenue problem, but as an attractive part of the job.
School officials and politicians often extol Asian educational practices, but they should also consider Asian recess practices in the context of an extended school day and academic year.
Other countries’ officials will take note, and auto and oil industry lobbyists are – no surprise – urging them to be warier.
Integration-minded officials at the European Commission clearly do not regard this as a satisfactory end-state.
The party’s leaders and elected officials fought against him during the primary, and many are still reluctant to endorse him.
But worries abound that, in a country where government officials play a major role in promoting economic growth, rooting out corruption might undermine prosperity.
A more credible concern is whether efforts to root out corruption weaken the incentive for government officials to promote growth.
After all, high levels of growth translate into large rents that can, through corrupt practices, be distributed to the officials themselves, as well as to their friends and protégé.
Eliminate such practices, the logic goes, and officials will be unable to reap large rewards from economic growth – and thus will be less motivated to encourage it.
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