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Talks among
representatives
of Shia, Wahhabi-Ismaili, and other sects within the National Dialogue were recently televised, but this was pure theater of reform, nothing more, and the Saudi population is no longer willing to suspend its disbelief.
Today, we do have what might be called a "left," although its main representatives, the postcommunists, follow Britain’s new Labour prime minister Tony Blair in believing more strongly in a market economy than in extending social welfare.
The US Congress has 100 senators with 40 aides each, and 435
representatives
with 25 aides each.
He also appoints the prime minister and senior ministers, and must approve all other ministers, ambassadors, and state
representatives.
On November 2, public-health stakeholders, including
representatives
of business, civil society, and international aid organizations, gathered in Bali, Indonesia, to lay the groundwork for a global campaign to tackle the looming co-epidemic of TB and diabetes – the first-ever health summit specifically focused on a response to the twin scourge.
Finally, the report criticizes IMF management for failing to ensure adequate involvement by the Executive Board, its oversight committee of 24 national
representatives.
A Young State in an Uncertain WorldALMATY – In mid-November, Kazakhstan hosted the third annual “Astana Club,” a new independent and unbiased platform for dialogue among international experts, politicians, and media
representatives
on the “critical issues affecting all the countries of Eurasia.”
And this past October, talks were held in Astana, the capital, on the Syrian crisis, with
representatives
of the Syrian government and some armed opposition groups in attendance – despite Kazakhstan’s distance from the tragic developments in that country.
For the first time, an entire state leadership was put on trial for its crimes, as its
representatives
and henchmen were brought to justice.
But they are mostly not chosen directly; those rules generally reflect compromises among elected
representatives
who can argue and negotiate in person, reflecting the overall preferences of those who elected them.
But, because diplomats are their countries’ official
representatives
abroad, their symbolic function is much more important than their individual personalities.
In this scenario, the policy center of gravity in the Republican party would shift to House Speaker John Boehner, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and other key Representatives, including David Camp, Kevin Brady, and Kevin McCarthy, along with several Senators.
A Commission that keeps France and Germany at bay and entrusts its major posts to
representatives
of "small countries," to more liberal actors, and partisans of the American intervention in Iraq, will not be successful.
I even joined farmers’
representatives
in a rally in front of Japan’s Diet.
On the contrary, trade
representatives
had to display impressive endurance and patience – for more than five years, for some countries.
Proportional representation, widely adopted in Europe in the first decades of the 20th century, was never embraced by the US because it is a system that would allow black
representatives
to be elected regularly.
In Europe, however, socialist and communist parties imposed electoral systems based on proportional representation precisely because they open the door to
representatives
of minorities (the communists and socialists themselves).
The few American cities that introduced this system in the Progressive era, between 1910 and 1930, soon abandoned it - or were forced to - in order to stop the election of black
representatives.
In many ways, Trump has managed to combine the habits of a desperado with the interests of the men dressed in black suits, the corporate leaders, the bankers, and their political
representatives
in Washington.
Whereas Hamas has demanded establishment of a Palestinian administration to supervise the areas vacated by Israel, Abbas has rejected this, agreeing at most to a “monitoring committee” in which
representatives
of Hamas will participate.
The committee, which I head, deliberated over three weeks of hearings, summoning senior
representatives
from the foreign and home ministries, as well as the government of the most affected state, West Bengal.
Rather than accept a more pluralistic political regime, both the Colorados and Liberals flagrantly disregarded their responsibilities as democratically elected representatives, and are gambling with Paraguay’s economic and political stability at the expense of its citizens.
In Pakistan, a discredited military was forced by public opinion to withdraw from power, creating political space for elected
representatives.
When he had finished, the 3,000
representatives
in attendance gave him a resounding ovation that was surely a response to more than the report; it was a display of praise and respect for his achievements as the head of China’s government.
In Copenhagen, the pleas of
representatives
of small island states (some of which will cease to exist if sea levels continue to rise) for a target of 1.5ºC went unheeded, essentially because world leaders thought the measures required to meet such a target were politically unrealistic.
The United Nations Chernobyl Forum, a consortium of eight UN agencies and
representatives
of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, reinforced these findings.
But some pushback conceivably could be warranted if the advanced economies – which have already created an informal contact group of “China losers,” including
representatives
of the European Union, Japan, and the United States – are right that China has been engaging in unfair trading practices.
No wonder its
representatives
discouraged any WTO action at a high-level conference organized by the EU last year.
On December 8-9,
representatives
from the governments of more than 150 countries, international organizations, and civil-society groups will meet in Vienna, to consider the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons.
Representatives
of the United States accused the other G7 members of “unfair trade practices,” which they claim have disproportionately harmed the US economy and its workers.
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