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...more traditional diplomatic presence with the arrival of U.S. ambassador John Negroponte at the end of June, Gompert says, neither Allawi nor the U.S made the reintegration program a priority. Job training programs run by Allawi's Labor Ministry were cancelled over personal feuds and pension programs and other aspects of the program of DDR - "demilitarization, demobilization and reintegration" - were bounced around from one command to another...
...Foreign Minister, tells Time. "We need a break." Well, fine. But when it comes to arresting indicted war criminals, Serbia has had plenty of breaks. In 2002, according to a recent internal Defense Ministry report, Mladic was under the protection of Serbia's military counterintelligence agency and received a pension from them. Karadzic has been has been sheltering in Bosnia on and off for the past decade. nato troops stationed there have conducted numerous raids looking for him, after being accused of turning a blind eye to his whereabouts in the immediate aftermath of the war. Newly elected leaders...
...self-rule. "There is still more to be done in Kurdistan," said Jamal Salih, 49, a shopkeeper from Halabja, who survived the Iraqi military's gas attack that killed 22 members of his family and about 5,000 other residents of Halabjja in 1988. Though he lives without a pension despite his years as a PUK peshmerga commando, and though he rebuilt his home and his shop without help from the government, he isn't bitter. "The important thing is that we are Kurds being governed by Kurds," he said...
...economy carries unprecedented levels of government debt?just as public budgets are programmed to confront the double whammy of a society aging faster than any other on earth, and a contracting population. Inevitably, this will one day mean significantly higher taxes, together with reduced social welfare and pension payments. At the same time, Japan faces ever more intense international competition, from China in low-value-added sectors through to South Korea and the U.S. in more technologically advanced products...
...economy carries unprecedented levels of government debt-just as public budgets are programmed to confront the double whammy of a society aging faster than any other on earth, and a contracting population. Inevitably, this will one day mean significantly higher taxes, together with reduced social welfare and pension payments. At the same time, Japan faces ever more intense international competition, from China in low-value-added sectors through to South Korea and the U.S. in more technologically advanced products...