| Ratification takes place by an exchange of instruments or, in the case of multilateral agreements, by deposit with a designated depositary. |
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| Indeed, this is only one example of the kind of pressure that the troika exerted on multilateral bodies. |
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| What is emerging in the place of the old multilateral approach, it appears, is a multiple fractionation of the global trading system. |
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| It was a speech that spoke well of multilateral action, postulating that there can and will be action. |
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| Without a guarantee from a multilateral agency, commercial banks are wary of taking a punt on a mega-project in communist Laos. |
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| What we need is a multilateral regime that makes it clear that this is a crime against all humanity. |
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| They seemed to favor a protracted, multilateral and legalistic approach to international affairs. |
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| It began with individual bankers and advisers giving way to multilateral agencies. |
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| The first Chennai Water Supply Project, also funded by the multilateral agency, was completed six years ago. |
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| India must return to the policy of non-alignment and campaign for a multipolar, multilateral, democratic and peaceful global order. |
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| There are also opportunities in the multilateral regional forums sponsored by the US and other nations. |
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| Some of the multilateral agencies are not just focusing on GDP figures at this point. |
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| Liberals now lambast him daily for failing to act through multilateral institutions and in accord with international law. |
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| The last 20 years have seen a change in the relative efficiency and effectiveness of multilateral and bilateral aid. |
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| Unfortunately, the alternative to a single superpower is not a multilateral utopia but the anarchic nightmare of a new Dark Age. |
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| On the regional level, there has been an extraordinary proliferation of multilateral organizations and agreements. |
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| New or not, the council members said the need for a multilateral organization is real. |
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| It is also a case study in the pitfalls of relying on multilateral arms-control agreements to protect critical U.S. interests. |
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| The forum, which held its first meeting in 1994, is the only multilateral forum on security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. |
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| Many United States and multilateral institutions promote business by lowering tariffs and offering loans and consultations. |
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| This is technically true in the fact that because we are going to war too, the overall operation is multilateral. |
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| It is a multilateral aid programme and operates on the basis of voluntary contributions pledged at irregular intervals. |
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| The avowed objective was to underpin one of the favored Lebanese factions enmeshed in the multilateral disputes in the country. |
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| Much of this increase is through multilateral agencies as well as direct bilateral assistance. |
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| Aid programmes in such regimes are done through multilateral institutions which bypass the government. |
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| Of course the Pacific Islands Forum itself is a multilateral organisation, and the support was offered unanimously. |
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| Soft interventions form part of the normal to and fro of bilateral and multilateral relations between states. |
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| Unanimity on all perplexing problems created by multilateral treaties is unachievable. |
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| In 1992 he was appointed director of multilateral policy and two years later director of planning. |
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| The world is a safer place when multilateral processes are followed and the international rule of law upheld. |
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| Participating in ambitious multilateral commitments is therefore in their interest. |
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| North Korea has repeatedly opposed the issue being raised during the multilateral negotiations. |
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| As a result, a multilateral nuclear arms race may erupt, which will pose a great danger to the world. |
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| Stronger European standards would have provided a basis for negotiating more effectively for multilateral standards. |
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| The Prime Minister says that she is supporting the multilateral approach of the United Nations. |
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| I will continue to seek solutions to the problems of this region through dialog and multilateral diplomacy. |
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| Our interests are best protected not by unilateral action but by multilateral agreement and a world order governed by rules. |
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| The United States was the driving force behind all the multilateral negotiations. |
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| What I am satisfied of is that New Zealand has done the right thing in agreeing to be part of this very important multilateral initiative. |
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| The multilateral negotiations offer us the best opportunities as a trading nation. |
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| In a sure sign of the times, there are increased warnings that the post-war multilateral trade system is breaking down. |
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| Talks between the two countries hold the key for the multilateral negotiations. |
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| The parties in the multilateral talks also include China, Russia, South Korea and the United States. |
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| The WTO establishes a permanent multilateral forum for trade negotiations and dispute settlement. |
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| Further multilateral agreements to control nuclear weapons were both welcome to CND and blunted its cutting edge. |
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| It is imperative for that meeting to launch a new round of multilateral trade negotiations. |
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| The role and relative importance of multilateral institutions have already changed too. |
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| It is not, and was never meant to be, a multilateral development aid agency for the poorer countries of Europe. |
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| Future multilateral trade and investment negotiations must not mean an unholy rush to all-out deregulation in areas such as services. |
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| The same applies to the quiet, unobtrusive work of the OPEC Fund as a multilateral development finance agency. |
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| This will certainly be a blemish on Canada's reputation in the international community and in forums for multilateral debate. |
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| Existing multilateral disarmament machinery has become increasingly creaky. |
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| Vital if we are to show that the WTO and the multilateral system is not just about mindless liberalisation, or kowtowing to globalisation. |
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| This has the effect of precluding financial assistance from multilateral bodies such as the World Bank. |
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| This shows that the dialogue with multilateral agencies, and with the IMF in particular, has not been broken off. |
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| We are making every effort to ensure the early entry into force and implementation of multilateral environmental conventions and protocols. |
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| A participant may set a multilateral limit for any relationship that is not subject to a bilateral limit. |
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| We have multilateral treaties outlawing biological and chemical weapons, which are both continuing to increase in membership. |
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| A multilateral limit may only be set if the participant has set at least one bilateral limit. |
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| States that are parties to binding multilateral human rights treaties are obligated to protect the rights defined in those treaties. |
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| Previously, debtor countries had negotiated separately, and at great cost, with sets of bilateral, multilateral or private creditors. |
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| Few expect a multilateral system for negotiating sovereign debt workouts to spring up overnight. |
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| He says ministers do not expect a global deal to be struck in Mexico, but he believes progress towards multilateral action will be made. |
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| The only party committed to multilateral engagement and cooperation in Europe and the rest of the world. |
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| Does the international community still need to have at its disposal an ineffective multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations? |
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| They make joint analyses of the situation in third countries and of multilateral issues and they prepare possible common positions. |
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| This outcome reconfirms the strength of the multilateral process in order to find global solutions to global problems. |
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| The average trade barrier, namely, the multilateral trade resistance term for the member countries of a currency union, declines more after forming a union. |
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| Nevertheless, international protection of copyright and related rights is the subject of three major multilateral agreements. |
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| Mr. Bassolé brings extensive experience in multilateral diplomacy and mediation to his new and challenging assignment. |
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| These measures could become a significant field for broad multilateral cooperation. |
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| A multilateral approach through the African Union and for those on the ground can play a very important role. |
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| It is only through flexibility and compromise that multilateral diplomacy can succeed. |
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| This plan converts the two countries' bilateral ties into a multilateral partnership. |
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| The question of national versus multilateral means of verification was raised. |
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| Initiation of this project awaits completion of the multilateral agreement for support for this program. |
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| We will continue our efforts to supply technical expertise, both bilaterally and through multilateral channels. |
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| At the bilateral and multilateral levels, a relations-architecture is already in place. |
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| The multilateral coalition backing the airstrikes is intended to be a check on any mission creep. |
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| But we should start sharing that burden with other nations and multilateral organizations more than we have. |
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| The multilateral governance system remains largely unreformed and apparently immune to changes in business practice. |
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| Prior to his tour in Libya, he was the director of the Office of multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs. |
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| It has set up a multilateral Proliferation Security Initiative to interdict weapons, with France and Germany among the eight European participants. |
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| Now how you make multilateral efforts without world leaders coming together as they will in Genoa later this month beats me! |
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| The current multilateral environment is not conducive for the creation of new organizations. |
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| Some critics go so far to claim that the deadlock at the CD is discrediting multilateral arms control and disarmament endeavours. |
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| This is an issue that has been stalled for years on end and continues to be weakly addressed through piecemeal multilateral arms agreements. |
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| We rededicate ourselves to the re-invigoration of relevant multilateral fora, beginning with the Conference on Disarmament. |
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| I urge them to speak with one voice across different multilateral forums and to align bilateral support with the common strategy in each country. |
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| The comparatively small additional benefit presumably gained by a multilateral algorithm would hardly justify the effort. |
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| Such an approach would be unobjectionable at the multilateral level and fill existing gaps. |
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| Certain decisions, such as interpretation of the multilateral trade agreements, waivers, and amendments and accessions, can be taken only by a specified majority vote. |
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| The package reaffirms our commitment to multilateral liberalisation. |
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| I hope this moment will come soon and that it will really mark the reinvigoration of multilateral disarmament. |
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| These multilateral institutions provide help to states wishing to find their way back into the global economy and into the virtuous circle of investment and prosperity. |
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| A demilitarized zone must be placed around the borders and they must be policed by a multilateral peacekeeping force. |
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| Much of this is multilateral and bilateral debt and suppliers credits with long-term maturities and favourable terms that should not be refinanced. |
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| The chairman of the multilateral talks, Pierre Girard, a Swiss diplomat, circulated a memorandum Tuesday to member states to reconvene the meeting, according to the sources. |
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| Canada complained that France was breaking multilateral trade agreements. |
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| Ottawa viewed with some alarm the new Republican administration's apparent lack of enthusiasm for multilateral trade liberalization. |
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| On the whole, the WTO Member States were divided as to the opportuneness of launching a new round of multilateral trade negotiations. |
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| There are some good reasons for multilateral organizations and governments not to subsidize the private sector in profitmaking work in forests. |
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| So it is not surprising that many Latin Americans revile the two multilateral institutions. |
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| However, bilateral or biregional trade agreements with selected partners could also feasibly complement multilateral regulations. |
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| In the multilateral arena, one must know how to move forward in tiny steps and how to make concessions. |
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| It is this latter enlargement that has brought to light difficulties now weighing on the future of the ECMT system of multilateral licences. |
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| We should try to settle our differences bilaterally, rather than burdening or blocking multilateral fora with them. |
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| Why does the current multilateral trade regime work against the right to food? |
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| With bilateral agreements already so difficult to broker, why take on the hornet's nest of a multilateral convention? |
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| Multilateral agreement on such measures would be an important stepping stone towards a strengthened legally binding multilateral regime. |
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| All of this is put into practice through a range of multilateral programmes. |
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| Bilateral and multilateral donors should earmark an additional percentage of all financing for peacekeeping and humanitarian work for this end. |
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| Argentina stumbles into deep economic crisis, defaulting on private and multilateral loans. |
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| A multilateral treaty could also be signed by a smaller group or by groups of countries, for example on a regional basis. |
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| We would have the input on what the environmental ramifications and cost benefits of each particular multilateral trade agreement would be. |
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| An unequal and restricted Security Council cannot supplant or circumvent multilateral negotiating processes. |
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| The multilateral trading system has been used by Members to progressively reduce tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade. |
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| For the first time also, a transversal action will support multilateral projects and networks in that field. |
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| We hence adhere to the principle of open regionalism, which requires unilateral openness and multilateral negotiations. |
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| Against this complex multilateral background, regionalism is a key component of the new international trade order. |
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| In recent years, the U. S. government has become the killjoy of bilateral and multilateral agreements by not complying with trade rules. |
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| The Americans can defend their interests better if they are not tied down by multilateral agreements. |
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| We continue to be alarmed by the insignificant proportion of overall bilateral and multilateral assistance provided for basic education. |
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| Chile approaches issues of security and defence under the guiding light of cooperation at the bilateral, regional and multilateral levels. |
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| China, however, has some experience disbursing through multilateral channels, although the amounts have been rather limited. |
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| In the majority of these development programs, especially the official multilateral and bilateral co-operation ones, there is one common symptom. |
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| These imputed percentages are also relevant to identifying future commitments to multilateral initiatives and funds. |
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| The principle of transparency should be applicable to all disarmament and arms control efforts, unilateral, bilateral or multilateral. |
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| Finally, it does not take account of the specialized role of multilateral environmental agreements. |
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| Indeed, ACRS stalled before the other four multilateral groups, largely due to differences over the nuclear issue. |
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| My first point of reference is to reaffirm my trust in multilateral action and my mistrust in unilateral initiatives. |
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| Strengthen the multilateral trading system's capacity to be a pillar of the economic recovery and provide a solid rampart against protectionism. |
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| Convinced of the moral rectitude of its principled position, a self-righteous country can wreck the prospect of a multilateral treaty. |
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| A key part of Canadian foreign policy is thus surely to work as a leading player in the multilateral system. |
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| One consequence was that the multilateral economic negotiations between developed and developing countries became deadlocked in most forums. |
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| If it enters bilateral or multilateral agreements, there would be a likely cost of sharing seigniorage collected on the dollars circulating in the dollarized countries. |
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| A bilateral or a multilateral limit with an amount of zero shall be treated as if no limit has been set. |
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| At various times during the last few decades, Switzerland has also been involved in multilateral debt-reduction programmes for Honduras. |
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| As the foremost multilateral financier in the region, EIB increased its lending in the Mediterranean Partner Countries to EUR 1.4 billion. |
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| We must deal with regional conflicts that have effectively brought the multilateral disarmament machinery to a grinding halt. |
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| Finally, the present state of multilateral disarmament diplomacy is in a mess, and requires new kinds of thinking by NGOs and governments alike. |
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| Key multilateral institutions are locked in moribund governance structures and not working effectively. |
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| All of those efforts, which represent a progressive multilateral approach, should not suddenly be abandoned or overlooked. |
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| Let us choose a multilateral approach and limit bilateral agreements that do not allow for standards to be set to civilize trade. |
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| There are no ongoing multilateral negotiations for an agreement to eliminate these weapons of mass destruction. |
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| The ECT provides the broadest multilateral framework of rules in existence under international law governing energy cooperation. |
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| When all is said and done, the international community will be judged on its ability to apply an effective and responsible multilateral approach. |
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| The geostrategic position of Bosnia and Herzegovina determines also its foreign policy priorities, especially those of multilateral nature. |
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| A weeklong multilateral negotiation aimed at China's entry into the World Trade Organization will resume on Nov. |
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| The World Bank and the IMF have tended to be excessively cautious and have thus acted as a brake upon the remission of multilateral debt. |
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| Because the crisis is global in origin, it is on the radar screens of multilateral banks. |
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| Without detracting from our cooperation in multilateral fora, we will create a New Transatlantic Agenda by progressively reducing or eliminating barriers that hinder the flow of goods, services and capital between us. |
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| Bringing fresh issues into the talks—on environmental or currency matters, for instance could pique advanced-economy interest and bring a new energy to multilateral talks. |
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| When progress slowed in the bilaterals in mid-1996 the pace of work in the multilateral working groups retarded and in some cases either halted altogether or resumed informally when the peace process advanced. |
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| The multilateral trading system should be upheld as the cornerstone of global trade governance and a bulwark against emerging protectionist sentiments and trade disputes. |
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| Various ways of averaging bilateral PPPs can provide a more stable multilateral comparison, but at the cost of distorting bilateral ones. |
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| Several of these codes were amended in the Uruguay Round, and turned into multilateral commitments accepted by all WTO members. |
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| The Ministerial Conference can take decisions on all matters under any of the multilateral trade agreements. |
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| Canada has continued to work within this agency to promote a multilateral solution to the problems of narcotrafficking and narcoterrorism. |
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| As a member of NATO since 1982, Spain has established itself as a participant in multilateral international security activities. |
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| To address this, the Nixon Administration began multilateral negotiations with the combatants. |
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| There are important changes occurring internationally and within Canada that may be able to inject new life into multilateral processes and could contribute to making trade work for poverty eradication. |
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| During the last 11 years, the Conference has not lived up to its main task and the continuation of the present state of affairs will only further diminish the credibility of this unique multilateral body of negotiation. |
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| I am in favour of Europe continuing to be in the vanguard on free and fair trade in the context of the Doha negotiations and of Europe promoting a multilateral approach both to political issues and to trade issues. |
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| Our ability to respond efficiently to the most pressing threats to international peace and security depends heavily on how we make best use of multilateral forums, including the Conference on Disarmament. |
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| Negotiations should also be initiated on a nondiscriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty prohibiting the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons. |
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| The City of Knowledge had been conceived as a strategic point of convergence for the operations of international bodies and as a venue for multilateral meetings. |
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| For example, a multilateral lending institution taking a completion guarantee from the project company may accept that it cannot enforce that guarantee if the reason for failure to complete was a political risk reason. |
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| The relatively insignificant number of instances of tariff increases by developed countries points to the merit of the multilateral trading system as a guarantor of open trade. |
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| Their gung ho approach to attacking Iraq, circumventing the legitimate role of the United Nations and the absolute necessity for a multilateral approach is downright scary. |
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| They would also give a boost to the rules-based multilateral trading system which is one of the central pillars of international cooperation with a long and proven track record in stimulating global growth and employment. |
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| What Beijing did not bargain on was that the United States would continue to use Beijing as a substitute for talking directly with Pyongyang on issues not directly related to the mechanism or logistics of multilateral talks. |
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| The conference discussed a number of trade agreements on trade facilitations and multilateral international trading system. |
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| On the one hand, successive waves of autonomous and multilateral trade liberalization had resulted in an unprecedented reduction in tariff barriers. |
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| Correlatively, a new multilateral dialogue, founded on a reform of the IMF in terms of its mission and a restructure of the powers of its member states, can be envisaged. |
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| Lessons learned from the twentieth century should not be repeated but should serve as hazard lights and guiding torches, allowing a new global multilateral architecture to flourish. |
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| At the same time, Cuba believes that the Conference on Disarmament must play the lead role in the negotiation of a multilateral agreement on the prevention of an arms race in outer space in all its aspects. |
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| Both regions have a preference for a peaceful and rule-based multi-polar world, organised under the aegis of strong and respected multilateral organisations. |
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| That is not a healthy or truly multilateral way of attaining the necessary consensus on such a delicate subject for international peace and security. |
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| This three-week intensive course offers diplomats the opportunity to learn first hand from skilled diplomats and UN experts on multilateral diplomacy. |
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| However, such adaptation calls for multilateral consultation, presupposing dialogue, debate or even a frank and open confrontation, which clearly have yet to take place. |
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| This NGO also sensitizes civil society, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and national, international and multilateral agencies, with a sense of creating instruments for educational programmes. |
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| In a multilateral environment it is indeed necessary that all participants are re-assured that all apply equivalent rules in a systematic and trustable way. |
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| It must therefore stick up for a strategy of sustainable development, based on a multilateral and multipolar organisation of the world economy, to offset any hegemonic or unilateral approach. |
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| In the area of the environment, for example, bilateral negotiations have been supplemented and in some cases replaced by multilateral ones, transmuting the process of individual state consent into community acceptance. |
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| Consultations shall be carried out periodically through non-institutionalised channels, including written and oral communication, as well as bilateral and multilateral meetings. |
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| The lack of faith in how compliance is enforced by the States of carriers that use multilateral licences is a major obstacle to the system's extension. |
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| The Government was in permanent contact with the concerned parties and was in the process of establishing a multilateral consultative body to examine that question. |
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| It was essential, as States parties had requested, to continue with bilateral and multilateral efforts to encourage ratification of the Convention and thus its universalization. |
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| The concept of universalization applies solely to multilateral treaties. |
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| In that kind of environment, as a price is put on carbon by multilateral government organizations and individual governments, we will see that environmental laggers will become economic laggers. |
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| But India's vocal support for a multilateral world is strategic rather than ideological, and its record of 'going along with the mainstream' is hardly unblemished. |
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| Further, since participants' settlement obligations to the system are calculated on a multilateral net basis, CLS also economizes on settlement funding. |
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| Despite several bilateral and multilateral meetings, the four have not yet come up with the lowest common denominator likely to get the ball rolling. |
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| The point I am making is that a bilateral approach replaced the multilateral one when the Free Trade Area of the Americas initiative was stonewalled by several South American countries. |
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| Note the membership of countries to regional agreements that restrains their ability to make individual commitments concerning multilateral commercial negotiations. |
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| The establishment of bilateral or multilateral agreements, such as mutual recognition agreements may provide the logical basis for discontinuing with the issuance of certificates. |
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| When all is said and done, the sustainable development of the planet as a whole hinges also on our ability to combine the opening-up of markets with the application of multilateral rules. |
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| Bilateral and multilateral funding support, coupled with enhanced financial priorities in favour of HIV funding at the national level, will scale up our progress and prevent backsliding in our efforts. |
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| For the PGRFA included in the Multilateral System, the Treaty provides for mutually agreed terms of access and benefit sharing that have been pre-agreed by the Parties on a multilateral basis. |
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| That would be beneficial for the Iranian people and would help to preserve the integrity of the international nonproliferation regime, which is a fundamental element of our multilateral security framework. |
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| The central administration of the multilateral contract system rounds off the offer of the SIX SIS Swiss repo market and OTC spot market provider. |
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| These multilateral missions are normally made up of two or three members of parliament from both the majority and the opposition, and are prepared in the minutest detail. |
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| Instead of taking unilateral punitive measures against Iran and Sudan, Canada would be better advised to take a multilateral approach, which would have more weight. |
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| At CONFINTEA VI an advocacy group for ALE composed of governments, bilateral and multilateral organisations and the private sector should be set up to mobilise funds for ALE and take seriously the needs of Subsaharan Africa. |
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| High on the agenda will figure the need to find a multilateral solution to give those poor countries without production capacity access to much needed medicines, an issue of outmost importance for both the EU and Brazil. |
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| It is vital that we work in the framework of truthful and genuine international multilateral cooperation, based on the principles of solidarity, complementation and mutual benefits. |
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| We are committed to the multilateral trading system as the best means of achieving greater and effective trade liberalization and stronger global trade rules. |
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| In furtherance of their mutual interests, States Parties may consider, where deemed appropriate, the conclusion of bilateral or multilateral arrangements relating to the subject matter of this Convention. |
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| It restates the inseparability of normative and operational activities and the need to articulate UNESCO's core competencies in a competitive multilateral environment. |
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| The Foreign Affairs Division is responsible for coordinating the process for fleshing out bilateral and multilateral relations, while applying various cooperation agreements and the programme with Central and Eastern Europe. |
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| An OXFAM analysis of the latest 'improved' HIPC Initiative to reduce multilateral debt burdens for the poorest countries demonstrates irrefutably that this approach is no answer to unpayable debt and its impact on poverty. |
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| Since 1979, when it joined the Conference on Disarmament, my country has been actively involved in the debate on the priorities of this unique multilateral negotiating body, taking the Decalogue as its point of departure. |
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| The Agreement focused the attention of member countries and multilateral banks on the upgrading of the regional Highway Network, with priority being given to Asian Highway investments in five countries. |
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| France participates in the action taken by multilateral institutions, notably the World Bank, to reintegrate former combatants and rebels into civilian life. |
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| We need to work on the effectiveness and transparency of the international aid system to ensure that we improve aid processes, as well as the policies of multilateral agencies and donor countries. |
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| The adoption of this amendment will enable the authorities to prosecute and imprison human rights defenders who are supported by foreign and multilateral organisations. |
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| To ensure its very survival, the Commission must desist from using agenda item 9 to promote base interests and instead opt for true, constructive multilateral cooperation. |
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| The wider the unity of Indigenous organizations, the more effective will be lobbing governments, multilateral institutions, and corporate business. |
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| The Council will therefore push in all relevant multilateral fora, including with all Parties to the UNFCCC, for a full and open dialogue on future action and on agreeing an international goal. |
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| Some companies have found mechanisms that allow them to partner with governments and with bilateral and multilateral organizations to help spread their largess. |
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| A number of groundbreaking initiatives lie ahead for Québec, both bilateral, in partnership with France, and multilateral, as a member of La Francophonie. |
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| Given the region's ascendency to independence over the last 30 years, independence has provided the opportunity for more defined diplomatic relations on bilateral and, to a lesser extent, multilateral affairs. |
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| Regional and bilateral trade agreements instead of multilateral agreements weaken the negotiating power of developing countries even further as they cannot make a stand together as they can in multilateral talks. |
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| We have to strengthen our resolve and work towards reinvigorating the multilateral process in pursuing the aims of bringing this Conference back to substantive work. |
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| Therefore, any action aimed at reinvigorating that multilateral system will create greater certainty with respect to the destination and use of weapons of mass destruction. |
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| Disarmament is a part of the multilateral agenda that, by its very nature, requires decisive leadership on the part of major actors in the international community. |
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| Despite intensive efforts so far undertaken by our partner countries with the help of bilateral and multilateral institutions, there is still room for reforms in tax policy and more pressingly in tax administrations. |
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| At the same time the Commission hopes to provide a valuable contribution to the vital global search for solutions and progress being pursued with increasing cogency in multilateral forum. |
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| But he is the guiding spirit of the International Crisis Group, a small outfit dedicated to the preventive efforts that governments and multilateral agencies tend to bungle. |
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| When elaborating this document, the Project Team privileged multilateral options as they are the only ones able to really provide for the free trade area called for by the Barcelona Process. |
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| This important forum cannot stand aside from the overall process of renewal which the multilateral system is undergoing, in both its global and its regional aspects. |
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| Although the shape of the new Afghan government is still unclear, it appears that it will be a basically pro-Western one, which will play host to a multilateral UN peacekeeping force for some time. |
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| Hence, Nepal feels that a consensual framework to enhance cooperation in the field of disarmament and arms control through multilateral forums has become more important than ever before. |
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| Liberals have always favoured a multilateral resolution to the problems posed by Iraq, and if the coalition is belatedly coming round to that view, then it is better late than never. |
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| However, as an advocate for multilateral institutions, Canada cannot accept having the Security Council lose all of its strength, being forced to kowtow to the United States, or become a meaningless body. |
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| We welcome the progress of the multilateral development banks to re-invigorate their efforts to promote investment in alternative energy sources, increased energy efficiency and adaptation in developing countries. |
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| On the positive side, the consensus process is often preferable as a standard method of working in multilateral forums because voting on issues can divide membership and leave certain parties feeling unheard. |
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| In view of the fact that the multilateral debt cannot be rescheduled, still less cancelled, the measures proposed seem to be simple stopgap devices designed to ensure repayment of the debt. |
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| Support for the draft resolution is a reaffirmation of our commitment to the multilateral process in the field of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. |
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| It was set up by us to negotiate multilateral treaties which, while responding to the needs of international security, safeguarded vital national security interests as well. |
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| Even more important, certain permanent Council members are adamantly opposed to moving forward with a multilateral negotiation process to attain the objective of nuclear disarmament. |
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| But claims that a whats good for the United States must be good for the world attitude has desensitized it to the concerns of others on the multilateral stage will inevitably resurface. |
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| There is little doubt that the region has emerged as a major global consumer, investor and trader in its own right, thus playing an important role as a building block of the multilateral trading system. |
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| Information which is communicated with sound and vision is taken up by the audience more intensively than for example a multilateral newsletter which must be read. |
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| On a multilateral, rules-based system we at least have a fighting chance. |
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| Is there sufficient information and capacity to ensure that legislative and regulatory frameworks and operational practices are in conformity with the state's responsibilities under relevant multilateral instruments? |
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| Bangladesh traditionally places a heavy reliance on multilateral diplomacy, especially in the United Nations. |
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| France will spend ¤ 1,4 billion for the period 2006-2008 for multilateral actions related to the fight against emerging and transmissible diseases. |
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| It is also claimed that users of multilateral licenses very seldom comply with the rules they are supposed to follow, in all areas, and with regard to labour and safety regulations in particular. |
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| The major and urgent challenge that awaits us is that of ensuring the efficacy of the mechanisms for multilateral disarmament in our efforts to grapple with the difficult questions of disarmament and non-proliferation. |
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| On the substance, we believe that measures like these will always carry more weight if they are taken within a multilateral framework such as, for example, under the aegis of the United Nations. |
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| Many others, noting that the overheads of a proliferation of multilateral funds were high, believed that it would be better to strengthen and more fully utilize existing mechanisms. |
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| Since the failure of the Seventh NPT Review Conference and the World Summit in 2005, there has been increased criticism that the multilateral disarmament process is in disarray. |
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| Such an unconsidered, even inadvertent method is not an acceptable way of amending a treaty, least of all a multilateral international convention, without the consent of all parties to that treaty. |
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| Many industrialising economies share the rich world's fear of cheap Chinese exports. As multilateral talks fester, regional trade agreements are thriving. |
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| As a veteran of the anti-communist struggle he can speak authoritatively on the European aspirations of countries like Ukraine. Yet for all that, Mr Tusk's tools will be the multilateral ones of a committed European. |
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| In addition, the United Nations would facilitate, through collaboration with bilateral and multilateral donors, the provision of basic police equipment, such as sidearms, uniforms, boots, belts, handcuffs and batons. |
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| As witnesses to the multiple knots in the Conference and worried about the future of multilateral arms control and disarmament, NGOs have tried to help delegates untie them. |
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| No relapse to bilateral trade agreements, but a multilateral trade agreement in the World Trade Organisation that respects national public services such as water, education, social security or public housing. |
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| To achieve those goals, his Government was counting on the United Nations to help it address the issues it faced and secure bilateral and multilateral development assistance. |
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| The five overarching objectives thus defined five such areas where no other United Nations or multilateral organization was equally engaged and where the Organization was excelling. |
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| This would offer people some reassurance, especially since it seems to us that what has been done so far falls short of the commitments made at the multilateral level. |
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| Many in GATT expressed pride and satisfaction that the multilateral trading order had made progress towards rules-based free trade while other international institutions remained paralyzed or anemic because of geopolitics. |
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| We are convinced that we need to work cooperatively at the multilateral level if we want to succeed in tackling the many challenges facing us in all areas of disarmament. |
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| Our chances of eliminating nuclear weapons will be enhanced immeasurably if the non-nuclear-weapon States can see forward planning, commitment and action toward multilateral nuclear disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States. |
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| Both those committed to trade liberalization within a multilateral system and those committed to helping developing countries will look at America's new strategy with abhorrence. |
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| We succeeded in avoiding this derailing of the multilateral agenda, but of course we had to use up negotiation capital defending what everybody had in fact internationally agreed less than a year ago. |
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| Tracking and tracing attackers across a borderless cyberworld, and holding them accountable, requires multilateral action that transcends jurisdictions and national boundaries. |
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| It seems that such an experience of multilateral cooperation brings not only exceptional open-mindedness, but promotes within each school the emergence of unsuspected skills. |
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| Canada is a founding member of the International Maritime Organization and has worked diligently toward multilateral solutions for issues facing marine transportation. |
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| The Summit in Rio will allow us to discus how we can take these important issues forward and how to better work together to ensure an effective multilateral system. |
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| I should like to point out, however, that, for the benefit of the developing countries, we have to beware of ending up in an inextricable tangle of regional and multilateral initiatives. |
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| By extension, collaboration on a bilateral or multilateral basis may put an emerging donor in a lopsided relationship with a more powerful traditional donor. |
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| Concerns have been expressed that some proposals for multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle might undermine or curtail developing countries' right to the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. |
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| India has espoused a policy of no-first-use and non-use against non-nuclear States and is prepared to convert these undertakings into multilateral, legal arrangements. |
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| It deserved commendation for the important role which it played in providing the developing countries with technical assistance for capacity-building to enable them to engage actively in multilateral economic negotiations. |
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| We all need to strive to reverse the negative effects of inaction that have plagued the Conference in recent years and indeed have cast shadows of doubt over the relevance of multilateral efforts in the field of disarmament. |
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| Canada must continue to collaborate with the international community and with its multilateral partners to address its concerns regarding Iran's spoiler role in the region. |
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| Both Aid for Trade and the Doha Round were the outgrowth of mutual interests and cooperation and provide a further opportunity to reinvigorate multilateral cooperation and affirm its importance. |
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| The logic of associating with some countries through bilateral agreements in particular must therefore not undermine the development of a multilateral approach that a global vision requires of us. |
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| Finally, with a few exceptions, multilateral and regional verification and implementation organizations have to date cooperated only sporadically, despite having formal agreements that permit and encourage cooperation. |
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| The freedom to provide services foreseen by this Resolution only extends to transport operations under cover of ECMT multilateral licences subject to a strict quota. |
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| As a new disarmament cycle has just begun, let us join efforts and good will so that international security is provided with well-functioning multilateral organisms. |
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| Finally, a decision would be taken that the rights enshrined in article IV, insofar as they apply to the nuclear fuel cycle, would be exercised exclusively through multilateral endeavours. |
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| By adding uncertainty to fiscal monitoring, they reduce the value of multilateral surveillance procedures and, thus, weaken the effectiveness of peer pressure. |
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| It is therefore crucial that environmental protection is fully integrated into international development programmes and the multilateral institutions, such as the World Bank, which administer them. |
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| And finally, we call on all countries to take the necessary steps to implement the present Declaration, in strengthened partnership and cooperation with other multilateral and bilateral partners and with civil society. |
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| Canada's interventions with other states, whether made at the bilateral level or in multilateral fora, are made in the context of supporting human rights within the framework of international law. |
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| This work entails full annual parliamentary meetings and more frequent multilateral committee meetings. |
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| Universities created by bilateral or multilateral treaties between states are intergovernmental. |
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| The country participates in both bilateral and multilateral aid, with the aid usually administered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. |
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| This is in addition to humanitarian assistance and contributions to multilateral development agencies. |
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| Indonesia is a member of several multilateral organizations, including the UN, WTO, IMF and G20 major economies. |
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| Italy strongly supports multilateral international politics, endorsing the United Nations and its international security activities. |
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| To become a member of the IMO, a state ratifies a multilateral treaty known as the Convention on the International Maritime Organization. |
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| Canada is recognized as a middle power for its role in international affairs with a tendency to pursue multilateral solutions. |
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| Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade between more than two traders is called multilateral trade. |
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| Globalization is a diverse phenomenon which relates to a multilateral political world and to the increase of cultural objects and markets between countries. |
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| Iran's Petroleum Minister Rostam Ghasemi called for a free and depoliticised flow of investment in the energy sector and respect for bilateral and multilateral rights. |
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