Settlement
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To date, there has been only a single instance of labor rights being pursued under a trade agreement’s dispute
settlement
procedures, and the outcome is hardly encouraging.
Protection, settlement, and integration.
For months, he told himself and others that first “Japan must have another brilliant military gain” over the US, so that it would have a modicum of diplomatic clout in negotiating a postwar
settlement.
And, while the two countries signed agreements in 1993 and 1996 that promised a peaceful
settlement
of the border dispute that led them to war in l962, it is worth noting that, just prior to India’s nuclear tests in March l998, India’s defense minister described China as India’s “potential enemy number one.”
Above all, diplomatic cooperation on chemical weapons has opened the door at last to a negotiated
settlement
of the underlying conflict in Syria.
Because these treaties were designed to shield foreign investors from expropriation, they include investor-state dispute
settlement
(ISDS) mechanisms that allow investors to seek compensation from governments, via international arbitration tribunals, if policy changes affect their business.
It has been a sadly recurrent condition of the Arab-Israeli conflict that no war lost by a humiliated Arab side has ever ushered in a peace settlement, just as no war overwhelmingly won by Israel has ever led its leaders to be magnanimous in victory.
The late Haider Abdel Shafi repeatedly stated one of the major problems in the Oslo Accords, namely that it didn’t secure the halt of
settlement
expansion in the interim period or if the final status talks failed.
Arafat used his negative power and blocked a settlement, but he couldn’t predict the consequences.
Three potential approaches were discussed: talks without preconditions, talks following a
settlement
freeze, and talks following the release of Palestinian prisoners.
By endorsing a false peace-justice tradeoff, instead of insisting on the more politically difficult option of a
settlement
freeze, or on the removal of preconditions, the US has jettisoned legality from the peace process.
A second vote could be triggered by the government’s failure to win parliamentary approval of the divorce
settlement
it has agreed with the EU.
Most bets are on Britain formally leaving the EU in March 2019, but “temporarily” remaining in the customs union, giving it two or three years to negotiate the final divorce
settlement.
Equally important, there is now a near-universal consensus among virtually all the Arab states that a peace
settlement
is in their interest.
Just as it took a Richard Nixon to go to China, it will take a Netanyahu to enforce a peace
settlement
that will require a withdrawal from most of the West Bank settlements.
Any good peace
settlement
requires a powerful mediator.
If this could be combined with a peace settlement, the world would suddenly experience a rush of hope that would break through today’s global cloud of gloom.
China cares about this region not only because it is concerned with maintaining the post-Cold War
settlement
across Eurasia, but also because it recognizes that it will provide the transit routes for much of the energy wealth of Iraq, Iran, and Central Asia.
This is hindering any peaceful resolution in the short run and will prove increasingly prohibitive to a political
settlement
in the long run.
Not only are these objectives important in themselves; they are also central in creating the right framework for a
settlement
between the various Afghan parties and the Taliban.
But Turkey now finds itself increasingly isolated from both camps, owing to its downing of the Russian fighter and its staunch opposition to Assad, whom both American and European leaders increasingly believe will have to play some role in any political
settlement.
The
settlement
reached with North Korea, whereby it will dismantle its nuclear program, and the Annapolis conference for an Israeli-Palestinian peace – with the participation of Syria, a pivotal member of the region’s “axis of evil” – are two key examples of this trend.
If anything, Israel has accelerated
settlement
construction since the latest round of talks began, while escalating its demands, especially regarding the stationing of Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley.
In particular, Turkey has taken bold steps that aim to achieve a peaceful
settlement
of the Kurdish issue, which has been a source of concern for decades.
Recognition of changed geopolitical circumstances allowed the Northern Irish nationalist leader John Hume to convince Sinn Fein that a peaceful
settlement
was possible.
Forest fires had run amok, spreading toward the heavily built-up coastline, cutting the
settlement
of Mati and the town of Rafina off from Athens and forcing residents to flee toward the sea.
If she becomes prime minister, her term may prove to be a window of opportunity, perhaps a last chance, to enact this least-of-evils
settlement
for the region’s future.
After Viktor Yanukovych’s election last year, the Constitutional Court rescinded constitutional changes made in 2004 as part of the
settlement
that brought about a peaceful end to the Orange Revolution.
The Phantom Middle East Peace ProcessTEL AVIV – Twenty years after the Madrid Peace conference, and ten years after President Bill Clinton’s heroic efforts at Camp David failed to yield a
settlement
between Israelis and Palestinians, one cannot escape the conclusion that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become one of the most spectacular deceptions in modern diplomatic history.
The process fell victim to the parties’ inability to bridge the gap between what was politically feasible for them and what was required for a
settlement.
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