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WTO is the only multilateral system in which developed and developing countries sit together at par.
Nirmala Sitharaman /
Developing Countries
Together
Countries
Developed
Multilateral
Par
Sit
System
Which
Wto
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The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.
Gustav Heinemann / Former President Of Germany
Conversation
Europe
Secure
Time Peace Must
Conversations
Multilateral
Secure Peace
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I'm not a multilateralist against anybody. I'm a multilateralist because I believe in a multilateral order.
Antonio Guterres / Portuguese Politician
Order
Believe I Believe Because
Against
Anybody
Multilateral
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There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.
Joschka Fischer / German Politician
Differences
Multilateral
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It appears that President Trump wishes to disrupt the global multilateral trading system as much as possible.
Barry Gardiner /
Trading
Disrupt
Multilateral
President Trump
Wishes
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I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.
Urjit Patel /
Openness
Carried
Multilateral
Right One
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Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
Elliott Abrams / Lawyer
Sanctions
Unanimity
Achieved
Forms
Collective
Multilateral
Rarely
Require
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And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.
Brian De Palma / Film Director
Controlled
Corporations
Doubtful
Multilateral
Sources
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
Ed Miliband / British Politician
Moving
Nuclear
Nuclear Disarmament
Nuclear Weapons
Together
Weapons
Disarm
Multilateral
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The IMF and other multilateral institutions do not appear to have prevented nations from manipulating the value of their own currencies.
Steve Mnuchin /
Imf
Appear
Manipulating
Multilateral
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We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities.
Sharan Burrow /
Economy
Green
Infrastructure
Investment
Training
Youth
Multilateral
Opportunities
Plan
Services
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
Federica Mogherini /
European Union
Governance
Human Rights
Institutions
International
Law
Rights
Support
Based
Continue
European
Fully
Global
International Institutions
Multilateral
Union
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I have long witnessed the enormous contribution Britain makes around the world, with our impact through multilateral as well as through our bilateral engagement.
Priti Patel / British Politician
Britain
Contribution
Engagement
Enormous
Impact
Bilateral
Multilateral
Witnessed
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A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.
Elliott Abrams / Lawyer
Diplomacy
Tyrants
Great Nation
Multilateral
Varied
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The notion that the U.S. can impose its will unilaterally on the World Bank reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about how multilateral organizations should work.
Seth Moulton /
Misunderstanding
Notion
World Bank
Work World Will
Bank
Fundamental
Impose
Multilateral
Reflects
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I am a multilateralist. I am deeply convinced that there is no other way to deal with global challenges than with global responses, and organised in a multilateral way.
Antonio Guterres / Portuguese Politician
Convinced
Organised
Multilateral
Responses
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We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
Vicente Fox / Former President Of Mexico
Country
Crime
Drug
Effort
Produce
Traffic
Consume
Multilateral
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We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.
Anna Lindh / Swedish Politician
Coherence
Developing
Developing Countries
Priorities
Multilateral
Operational
Policies
Regional
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For a small country like Norway, it's important for our ability to trade and to invest across borders that we have fair trade and that we have multilateral trade systems, also.
Erna Solberg / Prime Minister Of Norway
Borders
Fair Trade
Norway
Invest
Multilateral
Small Country
Systems
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So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.
Mitchell Reiss / Diplomat
Country
Fashion
Guidance
Other Countries
Policy
President
Countries
Invested
Multilateral
Region
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To help resolve conflicts, the rules-based multilateral trading system should be strengthened and modernized to encompass areas such as digital services, subsidies, and technology transfer.
Gita Gopinath /
Digital
Resolve
Subsidies
Trading
Conflicts
Encompass
Multilateral
Services
Strengthened
Transfer
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Getting more girls a good education requires an approach that harnesses the collective efforts of developing nations, donor nations, multilateral organizations, NGOs, private-sector institutions.
Julia Gillard / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Education
Girl
Approach
Developing
Good Education
Nations
Collective
Donor
Efforts
Getting
Organizations
Multilateral
Ngos
Requires
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There is a need for greater multilateral cooperation to resolve trade conflicts, to address climate change and risks from cybersecurity, and to improve the effectiveness of international taxation.
Gita Gopinath /
Climate Change
Cooperation
Effectiveness
Resolve
Taxation
Address
Change Risks Climate
Conflicts
Multilateral
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
Sam Brownback / Governor Of Kansas
Disagree
United Nations
Fundamentally
Governed
Multilateral
North American
Union
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I'm a career diplomat. I spent 30 years as a diplomat, out of which seven years as foreign minister. I've always believed in the United Nations as a centre of multilateralism and multilateral diplomacy.
Miroslav Lajcak /
Centre
Diplomacy
United Nations
Minister
Multilateral
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A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.
Victor Fung /
Access
Barriers
Range
World Trade
Best Hope World
Addressing
Broad
Market Access
Multilateral
Services
Tariff
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If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both national democracy and global governance will continue to be rocked by crises.
Sharan Burrow /
Governance
Rule Of Law
Vested Interests
Crises
Multilateral
Vested
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As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support - a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.
Raghuram Rajan / Adviser
Fallen
Portugal
Spain
Afford
Belong
Developed
Developed Countries
Multilateral
Needing
Trap
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The United Nations, and the way we approach collective security, must be adapted to changing circumstances. The United Nations is our prime instrument for effective multilateral solutions and a rule-based international order.
Goran Persson / Former Prime Minister Of Sweden
Adapted
Solutions
United Nations
Collective
Instrument
Multilateral
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
N. R. Narayana Murthy / Business Person
Seriousness
Expects
Multilateral
Solving
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In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation of regional standards. A multilateral approach holds wider benefits for more actors.
Roberto Azevedo /
Be Careful
Benefits
Chains
Never Ending
Proliferation
Standards
Avoid
Holds
Multilateral
Regional
Search
Wider
Worldwide
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On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
Hans Blix / Swedish Politician
War
Global Warming
Iraq
Kyoto Protocol
Protocol
Convention
Global
Multilateral
Warming
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Universities have a big role to play... making it very clear to their counterparts, their networks, that the U.K. is not walking away from the world. We still value multilateral cooperation, we still see the EU as a significant partner.
Sam Gyimah /
Cooperation
Counterparts
Networks
Eu
Multilateral
Partner
Universities
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I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that.
Paul Wolfowitz / Ambassador
Advancing
Best Way
Cases
National Interests
Institution
Interests
Multilateral
Participate
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While free trade purists have always rejected regional and plurilateral trading arrangements, the WTO's charter chose to be pragmatic and regarded RTAs and FTAs as building blocks of, rather than barriers to, the multilateral trading system.
Sanjaya Baru /
Arrangements
Barriers
Building Blocks
Charter
Free Trade
Rejected
Trading
Blocks
Chose
Multilateral
Regarded
Wto
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Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.
Paul Cellucci / Former Governor Of Massachusetts
Body
Canada
Effort
Nations
Perspective
Relevant
United Nations
Basic
Effective
Efforts
Failed
Multilateral
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Liberalized trade - in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements - is a key ingredient in the recipe for prosperity... An absolute prerequisite for long-term economic growth is full participation in the global economy and trading system.
Kevin Hassett /
Economic Growth
Global Economy
Long Term
Participation
Prosperity
Trading
Absolute
Agreements
Bilateral
Ingredient
Multilateral
Prerequisite
Recipe
Regional
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Continued public and private sector partnership with multilateral and bilateral organizations to support policies that encourage the proliferation of broadband access is essential if Afghanistan is to see the kind of social and economic progress its people deserve.
Tae Yoo /
Broadband
Deserve
Partnership
Private Sector
Proliferation
Bilateral
Multilateral
Policies
Sector
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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.
Victor Fung /
Economic
Framework
Mountain
Single
Allow
Multilateral
Regime
Strategies
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
Samantha Power / Director For Multilateral Affairs
Dna
Nations
Organization
United Nations
World War Ii
Acts
Carrying
Effectively
Indeed
Large
Multilateral
Threats
Wake
World War
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There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong.
David Miliband / British Politician
Austerity
Britain
Danger
Economic
Perceive
Recoil
Wealthy
Government Country Back
Draw
Essentially
Facing
Multilateral
Parts
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There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it won't be open anymore. We spent quite a bit of time with Verizon policy people in addition to participating in a multilateral discussion with the Federal Communications Commission.
Vint Cerf /
Access
Broadband
Discussion
Overseeing
Participating
Policy
Risk
Addition
Anymore
Commission
Communications
Multilateral
Otherwise
Quite A Bit
Regime
Spent
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The United Nations should serve as a forum to address our common challenges. And it must also be a space to generate solutions for mutual benefit. This is the very essence of what the United Nations is about. We must position the multilateral system to better serve our people and deliver on their aspirations.
Miroslav Lajcak /
Essence
Mutual
Solutions
United Nations
Aspirations
Benefit
Deliver
Forum
Generate
Multilateral
Our People
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What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including end-users, including every institution, including sovereigns and multilateral institutions, then the system would be safe - if people were margined the way customers of investment banks are margined.
Paul Singer / Businessman
Derivatives
Investment
Banks
Institution
Marked
Multilateral
Owns
Properly
Trades
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