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With peace plans and envoys coming and going, Israelis and Palestinians alike have finally become blasé about the chances of a final
settlement.
While the onshore and offshore renminbi markets remain decoupled, the start of renminbi
settlement
under the trade account enables Hong Kong’s offshore renminbi (CNH) currency market to coexist with the onshore (CNY) market, leaving significant room for arbitrage.
A regime in Tehran that must demonstrate external strength to survive its shattered legitimacy at home would therefore make the comprehensive, negotiated
settlement
that the West seeks much more difficult and risky, if not impossible, to achieve.
Located just a couple of miles from downtown Nairobi, Kibera is a heavily polluted, densely populated
settlement
composed of informal roads and shacks with corrugated tin roofs.
Last December, there was furor in India when a dispute
settlement
panel of the WTO ruled against India's practice of (1) forcing automobile manufacturers in India to buy a certain proportion of parts from Indian producers, and (2) requiring automotive manufacturers who need to import parts and kits to export goods worth the same value.
Given the many divisions both within Syria and among its neighbors, getting from the resolution to a cease-fire and political
settlement
is likely to take years – and even that assessment may prove to be overly optimistic.
Furthermore, since the beginning of this year, Chinese banks’ valet foreign-exchange
settlement
(foreign-exchange purchases that designated banks make for their clients and themselves) has outstripped corresponding sales, resulting in a consistently large surplus – also an indication of increased capital inflows.
This compensation could take place either through the entrenching of Union guarantees for fundamental human rights, or through the negotiation of a new constitutional
settlement
in Europe, or both.
Trump seems to think that this one supposed insight into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be parlayed into a
settlement
that finally achieves peace in the Middle East – or at least realigns the region to confront Iran.
Governments’ need to establish their credibility has thus given rise to trade agreements with so-called investor-state dispute
settlement
(ISDS) clauses, allowing the firm to sue the government in international tribunals.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given his full blessing to a negotiated settlement, and, similar to 2004, Turkey supports the Turkish Cypriots’ willingness to find a viable solution to the division of Cyprus under the UN umbrella.
But it should be clear that the current talks are the last chance for a negotiated
settlement
on the island.
The recent visit to Ankara by the new NATO Secretary-General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, only highlighted again how urgent a Cyprus
settlement
really is.
Most notably, in 2005 Palestinians living in the diaspora and others launched the international boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, with the goal of compelling Israel to stop violating international law, particularly with its
settlement
policies.
But such compromises would be made only within the context of a peace
settlement
that included the establishment of an independent Palestinian state conforming to the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The recent $1.4bn
settlement
between Wall Street's top investment houses and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) epitomizes the distorted incentives and regulatory failures that underlay the string of spectacular corporate failures seen in America in recent years.
As French president, he sought to circumvent that tide by proposing to the leaders of France’s African colonies a negotiated
settlement
for independence.
Resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict peacefully requires two parallel steps: a guarantee of non-resumption of military hostilities, and a clear, mutually binding blueprint for reaching a final
settlement.
Assad must maintain control over these areas to fortify his position in any political negotiations and eventual settlement, including a potential partition.
Moreover, the system for payments and
settlement
has been made safer, thereby lowering the threat of a “sudden stop” in economic activity, like the one that occurred in the fourth quarter of 2008.
There will be no end to the vicious circle of escalating violence without a political
settlement
of the Palestine question.
European military forces will also be required to play a crucial role in policing and guaranteeing a two-state
settlement.
A recent law bars Israeli citizens from supporting Western boycotts aimed at reversing the country’s
settlement
policies and at backing an independent Palestinian state.
But that would presuppose a small gesture towards the Palestinians, whom Israelis regard as being so deeply divided among themselves that no progress toward a peace
settlement
seems possible.
In this context, the idea of a peace
settlement
with the Palestinians seems more abstract than ever.
The US tried to bribe the Israelis – with $3 billion in fighter jets and political support at the UN – into suspending
settlement
activities for three months.
Last month, in a Manhattan court, Judge Denny Chin rejected that proposed settlement, in part because it would have given Google a de facto monopoly over the digital versions of so-called “orphan” books – that is, books that are still in copyright, but no longer in print, and whose copyright ownership is difficult to determine.
Yet another advantage of the CETA is improved dispute settlement, brought about by the establishment of a permanent court whose members will be chosen by Canada and the EU together, in order to avoid conflicts of interest.
The EU rushed in to broker a
settlement
that some contend was against Ukraine's interests.
When a baby cannot be registered because Roma parents face discrimination and live in an isolated settlement, she will inevitably lack the documents needed to set up a legal business when she grows up.
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