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Indeed, no one should underestimate the magnitude of the challenge now facing South Africa, the host of next year’s talks, in terms of midwifing a new legally binding agreement to bridge this gap and securing the finance needed to bring the Green Fund into operation.
But what should be abundantly clear from the US and Australian cases is that no government should ever mount an intelligence operation, particularly against an ally or friend, simply because it can.
But what counts nowadays is not where financial transactions physically take place, but rather the growing importance and globalization of finance in the operation of the world economy.
The major NATO allies all support pooling and sharing in principle; in practice, they are reluctant to provide their military assets for common operations, as was the case in the recent Libya operation.
Capital-exporting developing nations should be willing to accept greater transparency in the operation of sovereign wealth funds and pledge not to use them for political purposes.
The scale of such an operation would be enormous, and would expose the ECB to huge credit risk.
Banks nowadays create products and IT platforms to serve their customers in all their countries of operation; so separate prudential assessments of units in these cross-border groups, be they subsidiaries or branches, is hardly rational.
Reserve holdings represent an outdated concept, and the world should contemplate some way of making them less central to the operation of the international financial system.
Automatic aircraft operation is already becoming commonplace – especially in the military – but further increases will require a similarly automatic airspace.
From 9/11 to the Arab SpringCAIRO – Al Qaeda’s operating environment today is vastly different from the one in which it launched its most notorious operation, the 9/11 terror attacks.
This realization then dovetailed with the availability of more extensive historical data on the operation of the economy.
For European bankers, and some governments, current efforts by the US to revise its approach to the operation of foreign bank subsidiaries within its territory highlight that imperative.
Annexing eastern Ukraine – and thus splitting the country in two – by force has much less support, even among Russian-speakers, than the operation in Crimea.
So it decided to take part in the transport, communications, logistical, and intelligence components of the French-led operation.
With EU support worth €18 million, this operation will improve food security for around 860,000 rural households, or more than six million people.
Hopes were high that Cambodia had been set on a transformative path by the success of the United Nations peace plan, the huge peacekeeping operation that followed, and the remarkably peaceful election of 1993 (in all of which Australia played a leading role during my time as Foreign Minister).
Moreover, the capabilities of the Malian army and those of other West African countries that are supposed to join the operation are too weak to turn the tide.
Britain has deviated from this principle only once, when it agreed to participate in the Atalanta anti-piracy operation off the Horn of Africa – probably because it was placed in command.
And some local governments have purged such voters from electoral rolls, reduced the number of polling stations, or shortened their hours of operation.
But, far from recommending that the EU should control the operation of, or reporting by, the media, the report simply suggests that the EU should play a role in guaranteeing media freedom – crucial for European democracy – in all member countries.
Launching a military rescue operation would be highly risky.
The entire operation is run by a close-knit group of men (women play no part in this murky business), all of whom are beholden to the boss.
As for the single market, the EU’s landmark achievement, there is no question that a eurozone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
Elsewhere, various versions of the Basel 1 and Basel 2 accords on international banking standards are in operation, sometimes with ad hoc supplements.
Although they have mostly been on land, operation “Atlanta” off the coast of Somalia saw the EU’s first naval operation.
Everyday the private market demonstrates that it can finance any scale of operation and design and innovate in ways governments can’t.
But the Kony operation is different.
Moreover, the conflict in Uganda is largely internal, and the US operation is not premised on individual or collective self-defense, unlike recent operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen.
But does the Uganda operation, following so closely on the Libya intervention, herald a police role for the US whenever the UN or the ICC – which, lacking their own police force, rely on their members and interstate cooperation – judges it necessary?
Today, however, infrastructure contributes heavily to global warming, with about 70% of all greenhouse-gas emissions coming from its construction and operation.
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