Sentence examples for in a multilateral setting from inspiring English sources
China has long said that the territorial disputes should be resolved in bilateral negotiations, not in a multilateral setting.
Haas: The smartest place to begin would be in a multilateral setting, much as we had over Afghanistan.
It makes a lot more sense to address the problem in a multilateral setting, where China couldn't portray itself as a weak, righteous fighter holding out against arbitrary American power.
Vietnam is pushing hard behind the scenes to bring more foreign players into negotiations so that China will have to bargain in a multilateral setting with all Southeast Asian nations that have territorial claims in the South China Sea.
China has said it wants to settle those disputes in a series of separate, bilateral discussions with Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, but at least some of those nations want to negotiate with the regional giant in a multilateral setting.
In fact, the Chinese are quietly encouraging the North Koreans to talk to America in the margins of a multilateral setting, which would provide a face-saving way around America's refusal to negotiate directly.
"In any multilateral setting, the U.S. usually takes the leadership role.
"Obviously they can always directly talk to us in the multilateral setting," Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, told reporters in Washington today.
In the multilateral setting, we tend to rely on the outcomes of old battles where they be previously agreed language, or previously agreed processes or the ways of conducting themselves and they tend to dictate or try and dictate the future.
The paper shows how foresight can be embedded in a multilateral S&T programme cooperation using a set of coordination dimensions and design principles.
The Paris Call for Security and Trust in Cyberspace is just the latest in a string of efforts to create a multilateral, comprehensive set of regulations for how countries conduct operations in cyberspace.
