The Truth about NATO Burden Sharing

Burden sharing must be made a reality.

Greater burden sharing was a rote American demand.

We need to see more equal burden sharing.

Moreover, solving NATO s burden sharing problem is not enough.

Defense transformation is a key aspect of burden sharing.

No single measure can resolve the burden sharing problem.

The alternative is a poor intergenerational burden sharing choice.

More international solidarity and burden sharing is called for.

We are doing our part in terms of burden sharing.

Burden sharing also implies that non G 8 donors should contribute.

One key issue is how to handle burden sharing among different donors.

(c) Acceptable burden sharing among donors and likely consensus among major contributors.

A formula for burden sharing would be needed that gradually increases domestic financing.

The Committee believes, however, that the principle of burden sharing should be maintained.

Burden sharing also means sharing political responsibility for shaping and taking decisions, and for ensuring that decisions and commitments are fulfilled.

For too long, the debate has been framed around the concept of burden sharing.

Regrettably, burden sharing has proved to be more of an ideal than a reality.

In this connection, Malaysia would not be averse to considering more equitable burden sharing.

The need for burden sharing, particularly between advanced and developing countries, will not magically disappear.

They worry about not only competence, but also the old transatlantic issue of burden sharing.

The UNHCR mission must be based on the principles of solidarity, responsibility and burden sharing.

The financing of the United Nations should be based upon the principle of burden sharing.

Instead of talking about economic equality, we will now talk about equal sharing of the burden .

A related issue is burden sharing among high and upper middle income countries contributions remain inequitable.

Further recognizes that more balanced burden sharing is essential to the long term financial sustainability of UNFPA.

Clearly, this concept implies burden sharing by all Asia Pacific countries to ensure the region s harmony and security.

But it would also be less easy to reject a call for greater burden sharing in the world.

Burden sharing is a sensitive issue, for both NATO and the international community, and passions sometimes run high.

The increased tax burden for all who are employed is analogous to the reduced hours in work sharing.

The current global refugee situation required an effective and equitable mechanism for ensuring international responsibility and burden sharing.

Efforts should continue to reach agreement on a mechanism that ensures fair burden sharing between debtors and creditors.

The European Union welcomes all initiatives to broaden the donor base and to contribute to international burden sharing.

I hope the conference will help build momentum for greater international burden sharing for Iraq's political and economic reconstruction.

His delegation therefore welcomed the Convention Plus initiative, which aimed to resolve refugee issues through responsibility and burden sharing.

automatic budgetary contributions. Governments currently finance international organizations through mandatory contributions based on explicit burden sharing rules and arrangements.

The importance of burden sharing could therefore not be overemphasized and the international community should provide the necessary assistance.

Proceeding in such a way was not in keeping with the spirit of burden sharing or with humanitarian considerations.

At the end of the day, a collective, burden sharing Europe is the only way out of the current crisis.

So far, the burden sharing challenge, along with naive and incomplete growth models, may have contributed to gridlock and inaction.

This pointed clearly to the scope for greater burden sharing across other groups in their funding of UNCTAD as well.

He asked the Special Rapporteur to explain what role countries of origin and host countries should play in burden sharing.

To protect refugees UNHCR depends on the cooperation of States on the basis of international responsibilities, solidarity and burden sharing.

The Strategic Economic Dialogue sidestepped this disagreement on burden sharing and focused instead on what the two countries have in common.

It welcomed the conclusion adopted by the Executive Committee of UNHCR on international cooperation and burden and responsibility sharing, and hoped that it would help to ease the heavy burden imposed on developing countries.