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In the next five months, the country's obligations to multilateral lenders total nearly $5 billion, including a payment of $2.9 billion in September.

Suppose the I.M.F. had the authority to suspend a country's obligations to service foreign debt.

A non-partisan, House of Commons committee on climate change was established to study and recommend ways of meeting the country's obligations.

The bill would have imposed quotas on steel imports, in direct violation of the country's obligations as a member of the World Trade Organization.

It has also suspended the country's obligations to make foreign debt payments for two years and provided helicopters and engineers to help rebuild roads and bridges.

Internationally, BfN is actively involved in various scientific networks and supports the German government in meeting the country's obligations under related international agreements.

"Moody's assessment is a timely reminder of the need for Congress to move quickly to avoid defaulting on the country's obligations and agree upon a substantial deficit reduction package."

The law met the requirements of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision and fulfilled our country's obligations under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention.

Former ICC president Philippe Kirsch has said that "some limited amnesties may be compatible" with a country's obligations genuinely to investigate or prosecute under the Statute.

The Chinese Embassy in London cited their country's obligations to the United Nations Conventions against Illicit Drug Trafficking as justification for punishing the "grave crime" of drug smuggling.

Mr. da Silva, who will walk a tightrope in seeking to satisfy pent-up demand for social spending at a time of austerity, has softened his old views and pledged to abide by his country's obligations.

Speaking in Istanbul (where he was attending an international conference on the future of Afghanistan), Westerwelle said Germany was still committed to helping Greece through the crisis, but would not ease the country's obligations.

Greece is unlikely to be able to honour a 20 March bond payment of €14.5bn, according to Parker, and efforts to arrange a private sector deal on how to handle the country's obligations would constitute a default, he said."

The term has also been used in the Republic of Ireland, where buildings are surveyed for the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage in accordance with the country's obligations under the Granada Convention.

"Today's action by S&P restates what the Obama Administration has said for some time: that Congress must act expeditiously to avoid defaulting on the country's obligations and to enact a credible deficit reduction plan that commands bipartisan support."

With a transfer of nearly $10 billion, President Néstor Kirchner has paid off the last of his country's obligations to the International Monetary Fund and is now free to pursue economic policies more to his own liking.

The suit, which was rejected Wednesday by the nine-member Constitutional Court on technical and procedural grounds, argued that Colombia's complete ban on abortion violated the country's obligations to international human rights treaties ensuring a woman's right to life and health.

In the interview, Mr. Chalabi said Iraq would need a larger production quota in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and an immediate international debtor conference to calculate the country's obligations, cancel sanctions and prepare for a huge investment program.

Formation of a customs union, the Financial Times reported, was intended to ensure that dissolution of the federation did not jeopardise the country's obligations towards the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the European Communities (EC).

Just minutes ago, after a meeting on the Hill with members of the Senate Democratic Caucus to discuss ongoing efforts to avoid defaulting on the country's obligations and find a balanced approach to deficit reduction, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made a brief statement to the press:

Russia failed to make a $362 million payment today on Soviet-era debt that it owes to commercial banks around the world, a move that American officials, the International Monetary Fund and lenders to Russia fear could signal a growing movement in Moscow to simply default on the country's obligations.