The Truth about NATO Burden Sharing

We need to see more equal burden sharing.

This sort of arithmetic has the merit of giving some indications about burden sharing, but it has also been shown that burden sharing cannot be fully captured in graphs and spreadsheets. How does one decide what is a fair contribution from a country of 50 million people compared to a country with only four million?

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

The tools it had developed combined protection with durable solutions while sharing the burden of refugee protection.

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

And for that sharing activity to happen, we have to have well protected spaces of fair use.

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

Refugee management was a shared responsibility and the experience in Zambia had demonstrated the effectiveness of burden sharing.

Better military and financial burden sharing within both NATO and the ESDP would not only benefit the United Kingdom, but would also help to alleviate some of the pressure on other national defense budgets in Europe. We must take full advantage of our organized security structures to ensure that the global security burden is shared in a fair and proportionate manner.

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.

(g) Agreement on a just formula of wealth sharing, which will enable each State to have a fair share.

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.

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.

First, devaluation would distribute the costs of rebalancing more evenly, making it easier to clear the burden sharing hurdle to deeper reforms. Second, floating exchange rates imply that devaluation is an automatic adjustment mechanism, so it occurs without the appearance of an explicit burden sharing choice and the accompanying potential for political gridlock.

We reaffirm the principle of solidarity and burden sharing and agree to support nations in assisting refugee populations and their host communities.

In this way burden sharing as addressed in financial institutions would require major adjustments before application to United Nations agencies, funds or programmes.

In creating a regime for exploiting the seabed beyond national jurisdictions that provides for fair sharing of the resources, the Convention reflects the desire for a fair and equitable international economic order to control the oceans.

India was committed to working with the international community to address new and emerging challenges in a spirit of compassion, solidarity and burden sharing.

It was therefore necessary to strengthen international solidarity and to apply the principles of burden and responsibility sharing in order to find durable solutions.

8. Urges donors to ensure that their commitments to the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative and the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative be additional to existing aid flows, and underlines that full compensation by donors on the basis of fair burden sharing for the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative costs of relevant financial institutions is essential

13. Emphasizes the need to secure adequate funding for an overall financing plan for the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, including in particular the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Trust Fund and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Trust Fund in the context of fair, equitable and transparent burden sharing

The European Commission s proposal is intended to underscore European solidarity and burden sharing both core EU principles. But the plan s limited scope undermines this impression.

The international financial institutions have traditionally dealt with burden sharing by linking voting rights and representation on their boards with each donor's share of capital.

The just and fair provisions agreed for powersharing and wealth sharing had laid the necessary foundation for a comprehensive peace to prevail throughout the Sudan.

Thirdly, we must find an equitable formula for sharing wealth in a way that will allow each and every State to receive its fair share.

However, when it came to sharing the burden of emissions reduction among EU member states, the European Commission proposed in January 2008 to change the base year from 1990 to 2005. This approach endorsed as a basis for negotiation in the recent EU Council amounted to allowing some member states not to fulfill their supposedly binding Kyoto burden sharing targets.

Acknowledging that the global refugee situation represents an international challenge requiring international burden and responsibility sharing to be addressed effectively and, recognizing that allowing for local integration, where applicable, is an act of States which is a durable solution for refugees that contributes to that burden and responsibility sharing, without prejudice to the specific situation of certain developing countries facing mass influxes,

Germany and Sweden cannot be expected to be the only destinations for all refugee arrivals. Burden sharing is essential if the costs are to be tolerable.

A performance indicator to track burden sharing will be monitored during the course of this plan period and the information used for advocacy (see annex II).

30. Urges the international community, in a spirit of international solidarity and burden sharing, to continue to fund generously the refugee programmes of the Office of the High Commissioner and, taking into account the substantially increased needs of programmes in Africa, to ensure that Africa receives a fair and equitable share of the resources designated for refugees

26. Urges the international community, in a spirit of international solidarity and burden sharing, to continue to fund generously the refugee programmes of the Office of the High Commissioner and, taking into account the substantially increased needs of programmes in Africa, to ensure that Africa receives a fair and equitable share of the resources designated for refugees

30. Urges the international community, in a spirit of international solidarity and burden sharing, to continue to fund generously the refugee programmes of the Office of the High Commissioner and, taking into account the substantially increased needs of programmes in Africa, to ensure that Africa receives a fair and equitable share of the resources designated for refugees

(j) To establish a set of clear principles for the management and resolution of financial crises that provide for fair burden sharing between the public and private sectors and among debtors, creditors and investors, while recognizing that a flexible mix of instruments is needed to respond appropriately to the varying economic circumstances and capacities of different countries

32. Urges the international community, in a spirit of international solidarity and burden sharing, to continue to fund generously the refugee programmes of the Office of the High Commissioner and, taking into account the substantially increased needs of programmes in Africa, to ensure that Africa receives a fair and equitable share of the resources designated for refugees

24. Urges the international community, in the spirit of international solidarity and burden sharing, to continue to fund generously the refugee programmes of the Office of the High Commissioner and, taking into account the substantially increased needs of programmes in Africa, to ensure that Africa receives a fair and equitable share of the resources designated for refugees

It also believed that more coordination among UNHCR and other relevant agencies and organizations would help States to take concrete measures and develop mechanisms that could include early warning systems and information sharing, leading to greater emergency preparedness and equitable burden sharing.

16. Acknowledges that the global refugee situation represents an international challenge requiring that international burden and responsibility sharing be addressed effectively, and recognizes that allowing for local integration, where applicable, is an act of States that is a durable solution for refugees, which contributes to the said burden and responsibility sharing, without prejudice to the specific situation of certain developing countries facing mass influxes

SADC remained committed to strengthening national and regional mechanisms to create sustainable local capacity for protecting and assisting refugees and give effect to the concept of burden sharing.

4. Reiterates the World Summit on Sustainable Development commitment to negotiate within the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity, bearing in mind the Bonn Guidelines on Access to Genetic Resources and Fair and Equitable Sharing of the Benefits Arising out of their Utilization, an international regime to promote and safeguard the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources