Table
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Rich countries need to put serious money on the
table.
So the industrialized countries need to put a real financing offer on the
table
as soon as possible to allow time for a positive reaction and announcements of commitments from developing countries.
This requires emission reductions of 45-50% in industrialized countries by 2020, and almost complete de-carbonization by 2050, not the levels of 15-25% by 2020 and 60-80% by 2050 that are now on the
table.
This moment must be seized not only to beef up MONUC, but, more importantly, to use all existing leverage with the combatants and the governments that back them to get all the parties to return to the negotiating
table.
But every now and then, the Summit – an American initiative launched by US President Bill Clinton in 1994 – actually helps to place key issues on the hemispheric
table.
In addition, the UN Security Council should do its part to support a political solution, by adopting a long-overdue resolution demanding that both sides agree to an immediate ceasefire, grant access to humanitarian aid, and return to the negotiating
table.
The American negotiators who are planning to play an active role in the indirect talks, and will for the first time sit at the negotiating
table
if face-to-face talks do take place, have apparently promised the Palestinians that the US will point its finger at the party that dares to derail the negotiations.
Everything we extract, grow, design, build, make, engineer, and transport – down to brewing a cup of coffee in a restaurant kitchen and carrying it to a customer's
table
– is done by roughly 30% of the country's workforce.
He concluded with a favorite statement of American policymakers when there seems no obvious way forward: “all options are on the table,” he said, implying that military action should also be considered.
Tillerson is right that the use of military force is an option that should be kept on the
table.
There is one option that should not be kept on the table: a quick agreement with the North to freeze its nuclear and missile testing in exchange for, say, the suspension of annual US-South Korea joint military exercises.
Casual racism – disparaging remarks made about other ethnic and national groups around the workplace, or over the bar or the family dinner
table
(as I can well remember growing up in the 1950’s) – had become much less prevalent in Australian private life, and certainly wholly absent from public life, by the 1990’s.
While it has been making slow but steady progress, its future is clouded by worsening water shortages; though it straddles the Yellow River, the water
table
is dwindling fast.
But Iran’s leaders remain skeptical of either scenario, despite America’s official position that “all options are on the table” to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons capability.
Given that Iran came to the
table
to negotiate the JCPOA less than a year after an earlier exchange-rate collapse – by 200% as of October 2012 – it is not entirely unreasonable to believe that the government will bow to Trump’s demands.
The first priority should be boosting employment to enable citizens to put food on the
table
and recover a basic sense of confidence in the future.
These two issues may or may not be on the
table
for further discussion in Seoul.
All ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are at the table, along with Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, and India, which have free-trade agreements with ASEAN.
First, all polluters must sit at the negotiating
table
and be forced or induced to participate in reducing pollution.
Australia put real money on the
table
for increased food production, along the lines that Spain is proposing.
Reconstructing the Security Council to ensure that the most influential powers always have a seat at the
table
is not the most urgent reform, but it remains one of the most important.
In the 1980s, the US was a bad creditor when it demanded excessive debt payments from Latin America and Africa; in the 1990s and later, it smartened up, putting debt relief on the
table.
Apparently, I was expected to sit there, without touching my glass, glowering with arms folded until everyone else had placed theirs back on the
table.
India can no longer simply object to proposals by developed countries; it must put its own proposals on the
table.
Moreover, Twitters brings opinion leaders together around one virtual table, attracting a lot of “new public intellectuals” and “rights advocates,” as well as veterans of civil rights movements and exiled dissidents.
But, without Congressional support, they will bring fewer and fewer resources to the
table
and will suffer from an increasing credibility gap when they seek to negotiate with other countries.
Keeping a seat at the
table
would have given America more leverage over future commitments and agreements, including on other issues.
Obama has already put spending cuts on the
table
– probably to a greater extent than would please his electoral base (he does have a tendency to do this).
This recognition raised expectations for the G-20 and granted it the prestige that it deserved: it is the only forum in which world powers and emerging countries sit as equals at the same
table.
In order to avoid a repeat of recent events in Cyprus, where a one-time tax on both large and small savers was put on the
table
as a means to help fund a bailout of the country’s financial system, the rigidity of this guarantee should be communicated clearly to countries.
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