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It is a choice that neither befits one of the permanent members of the Security Council, nor demonstrates China’s readiness to be a responsible stakeholder in the international community.
(Part of the difference has ended up on the European Central Bank’s (ECB) balance sheet, but this cannot be a permanent solution.)
But it is clear to me that this moment in Myanmar’s history represents a real opportunity for permanent change – an opportunity that the international community must not miss.
Nor will there be much progress on a matter dear to Berlin, namely Germany’s application to enter the UN Security Council as a permanent member.
In short, advocates of cooperation call for an open and explicit bargain: Iran's support for stability during the current transitional phase in Iraq, as well as its commitment to maintain cooperative relations with whatever permanent government emerges in Iraq, in exchange for an improvement in Iran's regional and international position.
I have tried to present the ideas outlined here not only to the General Assembly but also to the permanent members of the Security Council.
Whether China intends to stay put by building permanent structures for its troops on the plateau’s icy heights, or plans to withdraw after having extracted humiliating military concessions from India, remains an open – and in some ways a moot – question.
And Matviyenko is one of the 12 permanent members of Russia’s National Security Council, the supreme decision-making authority on such matters.
Mao’s idea of permanent revolution was an aberration in the history of Chinese political thought.
Such reviews are needed not just in obviously child-related sectors, like education or sports, but wherever power differentials are a permanent feature of operations.
There was no “activism” on their part; there was only a permanent mandate to fulfill.
While the European Commission model may not be what NAFTA needs, the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the US should establish a permanent mechanism for channeling ideas and proposals, and transforming those ideas into action.
But that is neither unavoidable nor permanent.
That is an unimaginably large burden, and it risks condemning Greece to permanent recession and social unrest.
One of the grounds for attacking Rajan was that he has permanent residency in the United States and, despite being a citizen, was “mentally not Indian.”
As a permanent member of the Security Council, Russia thus has an obligation to act; it (and China) can no longer hide behind the argument that the UN should not be engaged in Syria’s internal affairs.
But China’s history, both ancient and modern, suggests that there is nothing permanent or stable about the country’s current unity.
In the United States, the financial sector is undergoing a high-speed but permanent structural transformation, the effects of which could be severe for developing countries’ economic growth.
The permanent war footing is just one manifestation of North Korea’s obsession with rugged self-sufficiency.
John Maynard Keynes, who wrote the rules along with Harry Dexter White, viewed capital controls not as a temporary expedient but as a permanent feature of the global economy.
Austria has dealt with the issue best, according to the SGI study: only 8.1% of temporary employees surveyed had taken temporary work because they could not find permanent positions.
Germany ranks a distant second, with 21% of those surveyed saying they would prefer a permanent position.
In Spain and Cyprus, more than 90% of people in temporary positions cannot find permanent employment.
Because this tax cut will take the form of lower withholding from weekly or monthly wages, it may seem more permanent than it really is, and therefore have a greater impact on spending than households’ very feeble response to the previous temporary tax changes.
It is inconceivable that national policymakers, seeing to their countries’ own interests, would prevent these arrangements from mutating into permanent asymmetric transfer schemes.
This is all the more necessary for the Security Council’s five permanent members, because, aside from condemnation by public opinion, no sanctions are available against them for any serious breach of the Charter.
In Lebanon, the danger of one community monopolizing power over others is avoided because the Lebanese constitution imposes permanent power-sharing arrangements on all major communities.
By recognizing a permanent say in politics for all of the country’s mutually suspicious communities, Iraqis can pull back from the brink and build for themselves an Iraq worthy of their talents and their history.
Best of all, passage of the HER Act would create a permanent, legislative repeal of the global gag rule, and return a sense of apolitical morality to US foreign aid.
Unfortunately, growing deficits mean it will be hard to make the legislation’s personal tax cuts permanent any time soon.
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