Sentence examples for multilateral setting from inspiring English sources

"In any multilateral setting, the U.S. usually takes the leadership role.

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.

"Obviously they can always directly talk to us in the multilateral setting," Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, told reporters in Washington today.

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.

Some multilateral agreements set up an international organization for a specific purpose or a variety of purposes.

In contrast, the fledgling multilateral institutions set up after 1918 collapsed, partly because of American isolationism and protectionism.

Only a small share (theoretically up to $1 billion a year, but probably much less) is to go to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a multilateral fund set up last year with the G8's blessing.

Of all OECD countries, it is the furthest from meeting the requirements of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the multilateral body that sets standards for anti-money-laundering.

But America remains the world's biggest trading nation; and its leadership has been essential to completing every global trade round since the modern multilateral system was set up after the second world war.