Sentence examples for multilateral meetings from inspiring English sources
"Multilateral meetings will not work," Van Rompuy is quoted as saying.
Innovative tools for multilateral meetings were introduced, bringing national governments and global civil society together.
However, the state department said at the time that multilateral meetings on Syria would continue, including Russia.
Takehiko Nakao, a vice-minister of finance, said after briefing his new boss ("'explain' is not really a good word") that there would be consistency at the upcoming multilateral meetings.
Multilateral meetings customarily begin with a round of opening statements from every party in the room, and Zarif and Jubeir, the Iranian and Saudi foreign ministers, laid bare their radically different narratives.
Some analysts said Iran's hand had been forced by the breakdown of a diplomatic effort to find a solution in Syria through the United Nations and multilateral meetings, which suffered a severe blow last week when Kofi Annan, the diplomat leading that effort, resigned in frustration.
Regulators from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and other international expert groups, and members of the Multilateral Meeting, where EU risk assessors meet to harmonize national EQC proposals, also joined the exercise.
North Korea insists on a bilateral meeting with the Americans, who in turn think this is conceding too much and are offering only bilateral talks within the context of a multilateral meeting of interested parties.
General Musharraf and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of India are scheduled to attend a multilateral meeting next week in Kazakhstan, and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is trying to broker a meeting between them.
A Western diplomat briefed by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on the proposal said it called for a multilateral meeting in which American-North Korean talks would take place on the sidelines.
As the recent multilateral meeting of the global partnership on Sanitation and Water for All in Addis Ababa reminded us, the cost of building the infrastructure to deal with the problem can be prohibitive.
