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Political leaders, on the other hand, are bound by the principle of “one person, one vote,” and have a responsibility to take care of both the haves and have-nots, the employed and the unemployed alike.
Primary responsibility for safeguarding the rights and well-being of all citizens lies with EU member states.
Finally, religious leaders must accept a new responsibility: to stand up firmly and resolutely for respecting those of faiths different from their own.
With the AIDS epidemic, Brazil faces challenges to its health system, and while one may agree or disagree with the particular approaches taken by the Brazilian government, this much is clear: everyone recognizes that this is a major responsibility of government.
It is now, when a new political and security order for the European continent is beginning to emerge, that we must clearly show our readiness to take our share of responsibility for peace and for the defense of human dignity with all the values that safeguard it.
It means taking responsibility for hard strategic choices even when these are unpopular at home.
In the past 30 years, a remarkable degree of consensus had been established that the primary, if not sole, responsibility of central banks was to ensure price stability.
Second, it has become clear that, whether they like it or not, central banks bear major responsibility for financial-sector stability.
The choice for European central banking is now open: should it play around with multiple political partners, or should it settle down to stable marital bliss with a well-defined mechanism for responsibility and accountability?
To be fair, the trend toward diminished US influence – and, ultimately, shared responsibility for global economic governance and stability – was already underway, and in a sense is inevitable.
More generally, however, Snowden’s disclosures have shone a spotlight on the US government’s handover of responsibility for some of its most sensitive programs to for-profit entities.
Its main responsibility, after all, is to set monetary policy, which involves a small number of very important decisions, usually made on a pre-set timetable.
Likewise, China’s relations with authoritarian regimes, or even its responsibility for preserving the global environment, are rarely mentioned.
To this extent, developed countries’ bear a responsibility for cushioning the impact on their workers by providing adequate social welfare protection, together with relocation and re-training benefits.
But a regime in which personal responsibility strongly affects individuals in one jurisdiction will give bankers pause for thought, especially in the case of global banks with complex matrix-management systems that enable product heads to be moved elsewhere.
Moreover, the Saudi king’s role as custodian of Islam’s holy places is misused to stall reform, saying that any change must be carefully calibrated and engineered to meet the unique situation of a nation that carries this awesome responsibility.
If Europe wants to pull its weight on the global stage, it will have to act with greater unity of purpose and shoulder a greater share of responsibility.
Time for Politics in KabulLONDON – As US and NATO soldiers prepare for their tenth Christmas in Afghanistan, a new buzzword is making the rounds: “transition,” the process of transferring responsibility for security from international to Afghan forces ahead of the withdrawal of foreign troops, which is set to begin in the spring of 2011.
Leaving aside credible questions about the capacity of the Afghan security forces, transferring security responsibility to the Afghan state does not address broader Afghan grievances about bad governance or the abuse of power – both key drivers of the conflict.
Responsibility for convincing Assad to stop bombing and shelling opposition-held areas would fall primarily on his international allies, Russia and Iran.
No Western-trained economist could have envisioned China's household responsibility system or township and village enterprises--institutional innovations that lie at the core of the Chinese miracle.
NATO assumed responsibility for providing security for all of Afghanistan in October.
At the Riga summit, NATO should challenge the EU to take its proper share of responsibility for success in Afghanistan.
Even if leaders balk at an extra half-day of meetings to address the most serious threat to NATO’s future, the Riga summit can issue a demand that its own 19 dual members, and the rest of the EU, agree to assume shared responsibility in Afghanistan.
Finally, we must recognize that the refugee crisis is a collective international responsibility.
We share a political – and moral – responsibility to ensure that terrorists never get their hands on the world’s most dangerous materials.
But because this is not always possible, particularly in poor countries, governments and development organizations have a responsibility to help.
The PRI retained power in those states: voters did not make them pay for their share of responsibility for the violence.
Government programs must be strengthened, and employers and trade unions must assume greater responsibility for investing in skills.
They should remind Obama of what foreign-policy experts Nina Hachigian and David Shorr have recently called “the responsibility doctrine”: great powers have an active responsibility to uphold global norms and solve global problems.
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