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In December, lawyers representing claimants presented Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court with a request to ratify a
settlement
reached with the banks.
If the court approves the deal, the
settlement
would put billions of reals into the pockets of savers.
That is why the
settlement
reached in December – which was ratified by the attorney general – could be interpreted as giving the court a way out.
Full details of the
settlement
have not been disclosed.
According to reports, the final
settlement
will be in the vicinity of R$12 billion ($3.8 billion), a far cry from a previous central bank estimate of R$150 billion, or the R$341 billion predicted by Febraban, the Brazilian Federation of Banks.
An approved
settlement
would mark the end of a complex and divisive legal fight that for too long has prevented Brazil’s leaders from putting a legacy of failed economic initiatives behind them.
Moreover, Spain’s debt with the ECB’s TARGET
settlement
system rose by €55 billion ($72 billion) between February and March, because capital outflows of that amount had to be compensated.
Israel’s security could be enhanced by bringing Iran into a cooperative economic and geopolitical relationship with the West, in turn enhancing the chances for a long-overdue two-state
settlement
with Palestine.
Only a multilateral
settlement
among all major actors can ensure a smoothly working global order – a cause advanced in late 2008, when the technical G-20 forum was quickly upgraded to a full summit in charge of global governance.
But Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak subsequently said that resolution of the conflict required a “political settlement” with the Taliban.
It is in Israel’s best interest to reach a
settlement
with the man who has constantly repudiated his predecessors’ tactics of armed conflict.
The law of 1905 marked a
settlement
of a divisive battle that must not be re-fought.
According to this view, Netanyahu's right-wing coalition might be persuaded to accept the continuation of the partial
settlement
freeze, but only if the Israeli public sees President Mahmoud Abbas and Netanyahu publicly engaged in negotiations.
Of course, the public can and should be included through a national referendum in assessing the results once the talks have reached fruition and a comprehensive
settlement
is reached that both leaders say they can live with.
The “Addu Declaration,” issued after the conclusion of the meeting, promised small moves by the eight SAARC member states, rather than a breakthrough on matters such as the
settlement
of trade disputes, granting of transit rights, and encouragement of cross-border investments.
Few seem willing to consider the possibility that the real lost opportunity actually lies in the failure to help spearhead the negotiation of a viable, peace-enhancing
settlement.
Those of Iraq’s neighbors that are potential spoilers would need to be restrained by a Security Council mandate for such a Dayton-type
settlement.
It seizes every opportunity that comes its way, including the Six Party Talks on North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, to emphasize its centrality to the
settlement
of any and all Asian issues.
The Israeli-American strategy of driving a wedge between Gaza and the West Bank while shunning negotiations on a peace
settlement
that could give Abbas the ultimate tool to undermine Hamas is a policy at war with itself.
We are willing to be good neighbors and work toward a negotiated
settlement.
That resolution demanded “that Israel immediately and completely cease all
settlement
activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem” – activities that amount to a “flagrant violation under international law.”
By obsessively filtering their conflict through the nightmare of the Holocaust and the Nakbah, Israelis and Palestinians have doomed the chances of a peaceful
settlement
of their dispute.
Unless Tillerson has in mind a hidden policy to remove Assad by assassination or coup, insisting on his departure as a condition of a political
settlement
in Syria amounts to prolonging the civil war: more armed support for the opposition will mean more Russian backing for the regime.
While governments, charities, and donor organizations actively discuss how to share responsibility for refugees on all steps of their journey – from camps in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey to transit to
settlement
– European business has been strangely silent.
US President Donald Trump, who does not hide his contempt for multilateral rules, is attempting to block its dispute
settlement
system.
This precludes any progress toward a peace
settlement
at a time when progress on the Palestinian problem could help avert conflagration in the greater Middle East.
The Saudis view this accord as the prelude to the offer of a peace
settlement
with Israel, to be guaranteed by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.
The sticking point is Hamas’s unwillingness to recognize the existence of Israel; but that could be made a condition for an eventual
settlement
rather than a precondition for negotiations.
We know also that this claim fluctuates in proportion to the amount of international pressure to stop
settlement
construction and end the occupation of Palestinian lands.
Meanwhile, his housing minister, Uri Ariel (himself a settler and a member of the annexationist Jewish Home party), unleashes a new wave of
settlement
expansion that threatens to link the 1967 border with the Jordan Valley, thus bisecting Palestinian territory.
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