21 Multilateral Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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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

Hope Best World Broad Market Market Access Our Addressing Range System Trade Access Issues Very Tariff Barriers Multilateral Services World Trade

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

Politics World Problems Economics Says High India Solving Table Leaders Attention Major Most Heard Expects Multilateral Seriousness

I'm not a multilateralist against anybody. I'm a multilateralist because I believe in a multilateral order. Antonio Guterres

Believe Because Anybody Order Against Multilateral

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

Education Good Collective Girl Approach More Developing Institutions Efforts Getting Donor Nations Requires Organizations Multilateral Good Education

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

Power Country India Developed Developed Countries Put Support Countries Like Does Fallen Itself Afford Any Cannot Which Spain Trap Multilateral Even Belong Portugal Needing Position

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

Change Risks Resolve Address Greater Trade Climate Climate Change Effectiveness Improve Conflicts Taxation International Multilateral Cooperation Need

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

Country Important Our Systems Borders Ability Small Small Country Invest Fair Like Fair Trade Also Trade Norway Across Multilateral

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

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe. Gustav Heinemann

Time Peace Secure Secure Peace Must About Come Conversations Europe Multilateral

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

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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

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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

Best National Think Way Best Way See Cases Advancing Participate Countries Institution Institutions National Interests Interests View Many Multilateral

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

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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

The IMF and other multilateral institutions do not appear to have prevented nations from manipulating the value of their own currencies. Steve Mnuchin

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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

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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

Benefits Value Worldwide Approach Markets Proliferation Must Be Careful More Never-Ending New Global Era Holds Regional Avoid Standards Multilateral Search Chains Actor Wider Careful