Representatives
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Next month,
representatives
from more than 190 countries will meet in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, for the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (UN Biodiversity Conference).
As a result, European citizens' elected
representatives
will be better able to scrutinize the work of the Commission.
It is certainly a good thing to have more women and nonwhite, non-Christian
representatives
in the legislature.
To avoid one of the two parties getting the upper hand and imposing arbitrary decisions, the common decision-making body should consist of four Serbian delegates, two Kosovar delegates, and three
representatives
of the EU, thus requiring both sides to gain the support of the European delegates.
As a consequence, the developing world’s
representatives
argue, the advanced countries should take responsibility for the problem.
The novelty this year was the presence of
representatives
from post-Saddam Iraq, among them an official from the Kurdish Regional Government, as well as a high ranking Shi'a representative.
It was a highly emotional response to the Lebanese academic's question--one that Arab
representatives
chose later on to ignore.
The argument against transparency has been that, in the unusual circumstances of the ECB, to expose the votes of individual members of the Governing Council would put pressure on them as
representatives
of member states.
In both countries,
representatives
of each of these groups demand substantial political influence.
I am pleased that the UK government has agreed with this view and has committed to full consultation with pension-scheme members and their
representatives
over the detailed shape of this reform package.
Soon after,
representatives
of Saudi Arabia’s Shia community sought a meeting with King Abdullah in an effort to free the detainees.
For close followers of the Syrian conflict, tracking key reporters and opposition
representatives
on Twitter can be a surreal experience.
In the late 1990’s, President Andrés Pastrana’s government met with the guerrillas – along with
representatives
from the United Nations and from Cuba, Spain, France, Switzerland, Brazil, and other countries – in a demilitarized area of Colombia to pursue an agreement.
With this aim in mind, it must enter into talks with democratically elected Palestinian
representatives.
But, as elected representatives, they are obligated to address these crimes.
They are intrinsically time-bound attempts to come to terms with issues, and they should be allowed to run their course if they are based on deliberations by elected majorities of
representatives.
And growing numbers of voters are now saying as much to their representatives, who, sooner or later, will have to start listening if they want to avoid imperiling their own electoral chances.
It was striking to see how often the most prosperous-looking
representatives
came from the world’s poorest countries.
In one 18-month period – from April 2015 to September 2016 – leaders of Murdoch-owned companies, including Murdoch himself, had some 20 official meetings with senior government representatives, including the prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequer.
So, the Chinese ended up embracing Chu and Locke in contradictory ways: as high-ranking
representatives
of the US government and as compatriots with whom they share the common bond of Chinese-ness.
After a time, they are removed, and a new set of
representatives
is dispatched.
But that shouldn’t stop the West from reaching out to him directly, or pressing him to publicly appoint the
representatives
who negotiate with the West.
They are not against representative democracy as such: they just want different
representatives
– people whom they consider morally pure.
It is this feature of populism – the idea that the people want only one thing, and that only true
representatives
can give it to them – that explains a symmetry (often evoked, but seldom spelled out) between populism and technocratic government.
For this, it would have to have all the trimmings of a proper international Institution - two Secretary Generals, a political and a military committee, a council of permanent
representatives
etc.
But is a referendum really the right mechanism for settling political issues that the people’s elected
representatives
cannot or will not?
Politicians must then take their conclusions to a forum (Parliament) that is designed to represent different interests through competing political parties, constituencies, and
representatives.
By failing to limit the size of the Commission and accepting the one-country/one-commissioner rule, the Constitution has turned the Commission into a body of national
representatives.
Last month, campaign groups in neighboring countries wrote to their
representatives
at the EBRD, requesting that the bank suspend its support for revitalizing Ukraine’s nuclear power plants until a cross-border assessment is carried out.
This clash of legitimacy is what the Greek government initially failed to understand last spring when it sought to ease austerity measures: Syriza had received a mandate for change from Greek voters, but other countries’
representatives
had not received such a mandate.
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