Sentence examples for a multilateral process from inspiring English sources

"The consensus which was ringing and very strong was for a multilateral process," Mr. Sharma said.

A multilateral process for devising a stable, representative, post-Assad government will take time.

Agreements on all these issues can only be hammered out within the framework of a multilateral process under U.N. auspices.

A multilateral process could also define a more positive role for Colombia's neighbors — accused by Colombia of harboring FARC rebels — by ensuring their support for bringing guerrilla leaders to the negotiating table and complying with agreements.

In his answers to reporters' questions, Mr. Fox also offered specific proposals for improving United States-Mexican relations, including extending the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement more evenly to small businesses on both sides of the border and turning the drug certification program from a unilateral to a multilateral process involving all countries affected by trafficking.

Washington touted North Korea's participation in a multilateral process as evidence that it had been chastened by the attack on Iraq a few weeks earlier, but perhaps the most decisive factor in bringing the North Koreans to the table in Beijing was that the Chinese temporarily shut the spigot of the North's primary supply of fuel oil.

Nor will the West acknowledge Iran's centrality to any multilateral process, for fear of losing negotiating leverage with respect to Iran's nuclear program.

The only way to confront this danger, it is claimed, is by starting a phased, verifiable, multilateral process to eliminate all nuclear weapons.

But to suggest that relations between Europe and Asia are doing all right and do not need an elaborate, artificial multilateral process is heresy.

Meanwhile, at Mr Zoellick's direction, the Bush administration has been busy developing what it sees as a complement to the multilateral process overseen by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), in a policy it calls "competitive liberalisation".

It is "patronising" to say that shareholders would find more information confusing, says Joseph Williams of Publish What You Pay, a pressure group.Some fear that the new efforts could undermine a ten-year-old multilateral process, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).