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These are the
provisions
that make the system truly multilateral.
Only if the new draft constitution is upheld in a popular referendum on December 15 will these
provisions
be annulled.
While proponents argue that investment treaties reduce uncertainty, the ambiguities and conflicting interpretations of these agreements’
provisions
have increased uncertainty.
Children living in conflict zones are being targeted for violence on an unprecedented scale, and the elaborate system of UN human-rights
provisions
designed to protect them is violated with impunity.
As world leaders gather in New York this month for the 71st Session of the General Assembly, it is time to reassert the values underpinning UN human-rights
provisions.
If politicians want to override or undermine such provisions, they must either change the constitution or flaunt it -- neither of which are particularly attractive options because the stakes are so high.
According to Huhne, “the
provisions
for nuclear decommissioning costs in total were £2 million in 1970, £472 million in 1980, £9.5 billion in 1990, £22.5 billion in 2000, and now, £53.7 billion.
Worse yet, the tax legislation is riddled with
provisions
that will dramatically increase inequality and limit economic and social mobility.
Nonetheless, reform is different from how contractual arrangements may be interpreted in practice, even in the absence of any specific technology transfer
provisions.
This is why we need a more effective crisis-prevention and crisis-resolution framework for the eurozone, one that strengthens the Pact’s preventive and corrective
provisions.
A day later, the government found a face-saving formula to send the preacher-politician – and, more important, his followers – home, promising that the Election Commission will be given the time to determine candidates’ eligibility under the relevant constitutional
provisions.
It should also contain
provisions
for lending into arrears: lenders willing to provide credit to a country going through a restructuring would receive priority treatment.
In fact, implementing the IMF’s guidelines may require eliminating
provisions
in several free-trade agreements (particularly those signed by the US) that restrict the use of capital-account regulations.
Yet, instead of reconsidering that status, the US has lately reinforced it, both with the oversight board included in the House bill and the Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down
provisions
on debt restructuring approved by Puerto Rico’s Legislative Assembly.
Although eliminating any of these major tax expenditures might be politically impossible, limiting the amount by which a taxpayer could reduce his or her tax liability by using these
provisions
could raise substantial revenue.
Indeed,
provisions
embedded in most recent trade agreements give foreign investors more rights than are provided to investors in the US.
Breaking the status quo will require a strong, targeted effort by business leaders, civil society, and other domestic and foreign actors, including
provisions
by international aid donors aimed at preventing state corruption.
The State Bankers Association, to which many unit banks belonged, condemned the
provisions
designed to facilitate state-wide branching.
According to the common position’s provisions, before a member state grants an export license, it should consult with any member state that has previously denied a similar license.
An agreement should contain
provisions
to improve the business environment – its transparency and predictability – by setting a framework for state intervention without stripping government of its prerogatives.
These concerns have driven Russia to demand that the US sign a binding treaty that limits the speed, location, and capabilities of its missile defenses and includes mandatory transparency
provisions
– even as Russian officials acknowledge that the US Senate would never ratify such a treaty.
The compromise reached at Nice four years ago is important because it contains, among other provisions, all the technicalities of voting balances and power sharing among EU institutions that must be firmly in place before the Union can admit new members.
The START verification
provisions
provide crucial information that is essential for the force-planning process.
The
provisions
in the chapter on democratic principles, which concern the EU’s institutions and procedural functions, lay the groundwork for a system that is more open to public debate on EU policies.
But the decision also reiterated the goal of creating an EU “whose currency is the euro,” and reaffirmed treaty
provisions
stipulating that other non-euro states, such as Bulgaria and Poland, must adopt the euro when they meet the pre-determined conditions.
No
provisions
of EU law address the disintegration of a member state, as secession contradicts the core principle of “ever closer Union.”
One answer would be to add to future bond covenants contractual
provisions
that would trigger the necessary restructuring automatically.
New Zealand’s recent “KiwiSaver” plan and the United Kingdom’s Pensions Act of 2007 are similarly based on automatic enrollment for employees with free opt-out
provisions.
Strict adherence to constitutional
provisions
in any such eventuality is imperative.
In Macedonia, the conservative Macedonian Slav-run government has for years dragged its feet on implementing the equal-rights
provisions
of the Ohrid Agreement, reached in 2001 with the leaders of the ethnic Albanian minority to end a violent insurrection by the National Liberation Army, an ethnic Albanian militia.
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