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For example, the number of governance-related articles in US newspapers tripled from 2000 to 2002, and the number of governance-related resolutions brought to a vote by institutional investors (many focusing on anti-takeover provisions) more than doubled, with both figures remaining at elevated levels ever since.
In the heat of an international crisis, the Security Council passes resolutions to great public fanfare, establishing an official UN “mandate.”
This fits with United Nations Security Council resolutions, among them Number 242, which stated the "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war."
All Arab nations have agreed to full recognition of Israel if it will comply with key United Nations resolutions.
It responded decisively to the Ebola crisis, and has passed some important counter-terrorism resolutions.
A series of UN General Assembly resolutions negotiated and adopted since 2004 have also set out regimes to protect the biodiversity of the deep seas.
But international support for basic R2P principles remains strong, with the Council itself continuing to use “responsibility to protect” terminology in its resolutions and statements (26 times, at last count, since Libya).
Getting Serious About Global PovertyInstitutions and governments, like people, make bold resolutions at the beginning of every year.
A breakthrough of sorts may have come this past weekend when, after vetoing three previous resolutions, Russia finally agreed with Western and Arab-backed calls for Syria’s government and opposition forces to provide immediate access to humanitarian aid.
Most of its military or police missions have been based on UN Security Council resolutions, and ESDP missions outside Europe have been at the invitation of local authorities.
Of course, ESDP security missions, even those in accordance with Security Council resolutions, may not operate within the UN system – the EU prefers its own independent leadership.
This means more than passing a few virtuous sounding resolutions in the Duma.
It also lacks the ability to ensure that bank resolutions are accompanied by the necessary preventive steps in the rest of the banking system.
In UN Security Council resolutions passed this year on Somalia, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and others, the Security Council has appropriately observed that serious human rights abuses pose a threat to peace and security in the regions where those states are situated.
It has been more than 20 years since Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait, prompting the near-unanimous adoption of United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding the withdrawal of Iraqi forces.
When Saddam defied the resolutions, a 34-country coalition, supporting the United States-led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm, drove his troops out of Kuwait.
Certainly, one will not be found in more United Nations resolutions, which is why US President Barack Obama is now believed to favor a “managed transition” in Syria that would not fatally erode the existing instruments of the Syrian state.
By all means, the Six should keep the option of more biting resolutions as an inducement to Iranian compromise.
But those who now call on the Security Council to issue rapid condemnations of Iran’s behavior should keep two things in mind: they are unlikely to have any effect, and the US has already used such resolutions as a pretext for launching military action on its own.
There are more United Nations resolutions devoted to human rights abuses committed by Israel than to abuses by all other countries combined.
China has agreed to Security Council resolutions against Iran on several occasions, but it has backed sanctions against North Korea on only two, both coming after the North conducted nuclear tests (in 2006 and 2009).
No other modern issue has appropriated as many UN resolutions or as much international diplomacy.
And Israel’s continuing settlement construction on the West Bank has sharpened their sense that negotiations would not be productive, whereas the raft of UN resolutions supporting a two-state solution could now be put to the test.
Congressmen introduced impeachment resolutions.
The official Saudi press explains the new stance as reflecting the government’s desire to abide by Security Council resolutions.
So, here – in a spirit of supreme, but perhaps not totally naive, optimism – are the 2015 New Year’s resolutions that I would most like each of East Asia’s leaders to make.
Perhaps the idea that any of these resolutions will actually be made is fanciful.
And we all know that it is in the nature of New Year’s resolutions that, even when they are made, they are rarely kept.
But should any one of the resolutions on my list come to pass, the result would be momentous.
Ed Royce, Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, has called on Hun Sen to resign; condemnatory resolutions have been passed in a number of parliaments; and many states entered criticisms of one kind or another into the record when the UN Human Rights Council reviewed Cambodia’s human-rights record in Geneva a few weeks ago.
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