Readiness
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Armenia has indicated its
readiness
to join the Russian-led Eurasian Union, along with Belarus and Kazakhstan, and has already formed a customs union with these countries.
It exemplifies Western hypocrisy – whether over nuclear non-proliferation, the refusal to deal with the elected Hamas, or
readiness
to criticize Russia for “disproportionate” use of force in Georgia while remaining quiet over 1,300 deaths in Gaza.
We are receiving a wave of interest and
readiness
for further dialogue on this topic within the EU and beyond.
In late 2014, Russia cut off Ukraine completely, again signaling its
readiness
to use gas supplies as a weapon of foreign policy.
For all their self-image as progressives, the elites’
readiness
to ignore widening class divisions, and to replace it with class-blind identity politics, was the greatest gift to toxic populism.
Harvard University and IBM teamed up in the past year to prepare an "IT
Readiness
Guide" as a public service to help developing country governments and communities around the world assess where they are in the IT revolution and New Economy.
Against this background, Fowle’s release, which apparently carried no quid pro quo, has been interpreted as a sign of the regime’s
readiness
to initiate a long-awaited dialogue with the United States.
While Meshal maintained a hardline stance in his speech in Gaza (see below), in private discussions he expressed a
readiness
to accept a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
But the success of such an approach depends on Israel’s
readiness
to engage Hamas, which it continues to regard as a terrorist group, and on the viability of Egyptian mediation.
It appears that US President Barack Obama has won time by drawing a line in the sand – the start of an explicit Iranian nuclear-weapons program – and by assuring Israel of America’s
readiness
for military action should negotiations fail.
One is related to the
readiness
of the two major nuclear powers, Russia and the United States, to move from the stockpile reductions to which they agreed in the New START treaty to complete elimination of their nuclear arsenals.
Consider Pakistan, for which repeated defeat at the hands of its sworn enemy, India, in conventional wars has been the catalyst for its
readiness
“to eat grass,” as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto famously put it, in order to counter India’s conventional superiority and nuclear capabilities.
Iran could easily do what Japan does – hold enrichment facilities in
readiness
to make a bomb without actually doing so.
With or without external assistance, the
readiness
of an increasing number of them to stand up to China’s decades-old policy of ethnic and economic colonization does not augur well for weiwen.
In effect, Hamas has returned the conflict to the 1960’s and 1970’s, when progress toward peace had to await the PLO’s
readiness
to stop using terrorism and accept Israel’s existence.
The
readiness
of the nuclear weapons based on its territory – a matter of weeks or months rather than hours – provides little strategic value.
Another core issue to be addressed is the
readiness
and role of NATO members in responding to new challenges.
By embarking on a banking union, which will transfer to the European level responsibility for bank supervision and, ultimately, resolution and recapitalization, they showed their
readiness
to address a systemic weakness in the monetary union’s design.
This consistent pattern of
readiness
to inflict civilian casualties – often when striking targets that are not of vital military significance – suggests that Bush and other pro-life American leaders have less concern for the lives of innocent human beings in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, than they have for human embryos.
But recent reports suggest that Russia’s military
readiness
is more fiction than fact.
There are even indications of some Syrian intelligence-sharing with the Americans regarding Iraqi military
readiness
in the weeks preceding the attacks.
Though the Fund initially was allocated only €500 million, a rather modest sum compared to the overall annual EU budget of around €100 billion, its creation was an important signal of the EU’s
readiness
to compensate those who lose out from a common policy.
In Denmark, my own country, economic
readiness
is not the issue.
The West's
readiness
to bail the country out has been stretched to the limit.
Trump also did himself no favor by unilaterally announcing that the US would no longer conduct what he described as “provocative” war games, also known as military exercises meant to ensure
readiness
and enhance deterrence.
France professes to bearing a special responsibility for international order, but so does Germany; only a few weeks ago, Chancellor Schroeder based his claim to a permanent German seat in the UN Security Council on Germany's
readiness
to shoulder such responsibilities.
Its military lacks the capacity to intervene in Saudi Arabia’s defense while maintaining not only domestic security, but also
readiness
for war against India (an obsession of Pakistani generals).
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced his country’s
readiness
to host an international conference this summer on major disasters, giving Japan an opportunity to share lessons learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
The seriousness of the region’s political leaders should be gauged according to two criteria: their
readiness
to push for robust and progressive tax systems and their sincerity about introducing checks and balances and promoting judicial independence.
In Ohio, high-school graduates can obtain a rigorous “Professional Readiness” certification covering 15 skill areas.
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