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The Arab League should publicly charge the Security Council with abdicating its responsibility for preserving international peace and security and call on countries with important interests in the region to join with them in taking action.
They should specifically call on the US to assume the mantle of global responsibility and, in the phrase that Obama used to describe the intervention in Libya, “create the conditions and coalitions for others to step up.”
The League would be asking the US to live up to its values and pursue its interests, while at the same time fulfilling its own responsibility as a regional organization.
Those steps include cooperation with provincial governments – which bear the primary responsibility for primary and secondary education in Pakistan – to devise a roadmap for universal enrollment.
At the same time, India has long advocated for the principle of “common but differentiated responsibility,” which holds that the industrialized countries that have contributed the most to global warming have a larger obligation to address it.
Typhoon survivors in the Philippines delivered a complaint to the country’s Commission on Human Rights, calling for an investigation into big fossil-fuel companies’ responsibility for causing climate change.
Big Oil, Big Gas, and Big Coal need to accept responsibility for climate change and start making real contributions to adaptation, or prepare to battle for their own survival – a battle that, in the long term, they simply cannot win.
To some degree, the new coalition will feel the pressure and consider the necessity to assume more responsibility for international leadership.
At their June summit, Europe’s leaders finally recognized the need to rectify this situation, transferring responsibility for banking supervision in the eurozone to the European Central Bank.
Moreover, the ECB already bears de facto responsibility for the stability of the eurozone’s banking system.
This global crisis requires a global response, but, unfortunately, responsibility for responding remains at the national level.
The time has come for India to recognize that with power comes responsibility, and to act like the indispensable nation for regional and world security that it has become.
But if the US-led system remains in place for too long, it will prevent American dependencies from taking more responsibility for their security.
But we also recognize that developing countries have a responsibility to act and that doing so can generate immense economic, social, and public health advantages for their citizens.
Let us hope that they include some sign that he recognizes America’s responsibility for the destruction of so many civilian lives.
It thus has a responsibility to develop a system of governance that can deliver structural changes to its economy and society, while ensuring effective accountability.
To make these religious authorities acknowledge their responsibility is a duty that all of international civil society, including religious leaders, must embrace.
What few seem to recognize, however, is that China cannot bear sole responsibility for bringing North Korea into line.
Wealthy states and regions face the dilemma of designing border controls that reflect not only the needs and demands of their populations, but also their responsibility to those seeking to enter their territory.
As 2014 begins, the world needs clearer lines of responsibility for averting further tragedies.
For this reason, too, it is our responsibility to fortify the US-Japan alliance.
On the one hand, the fact that an international tribunal has pronounced on the responsibility of a state in the matter of genocide is an undeniably positive development.
In the US, the federal government does not take responsibility for solving states’ individual problems; indeed, the states that have been hardest hit by the crisis have undertaken their own reforms.
The bottom line is that regulatory policies in developing countries, particularly countries in Africa, often bear much of the responsibility for low Internet penetration and slow adoption of technology.
The refusal of European leaders to take responsibility and agree on a shared solution to the refugee crisis is not just hurting the refugees; it is also damaging the EU’s future, as it weakens Germany’s willingness to reform and engage with the rest of Europe.
It is the West’s responsibility to persuade Russia to support the elections – and to guarantee that the needed constitutional reforms will be decided in Kyiv, not in Dayton.
Making matters worse, central banks routinely deny responsibility for any prices other than consumer prices, ignoring that the value of money is reflected in all prices, including commodities, real estate, stocks, bonds, and, perhaps most important, exchange rates.
“The responsibility of making this work lies on your shoulders.”
We took our responsibility seriously, and I do not just mean avoiding “scandal.”
Indeed, former French President Jacques Chirac won a place in French history by proclaiming France’s responsibility for the crimes committed by the collaborationist Vichy government against its Jewish citizens during the Nazi occupation.
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