His initial charge was that the U.S. military could not do two things well at once: "multilateral cooperation in the war on terrorism can be severely damaged in the way we go about undertaking unilateral action against Iraq".
He also threatens to pull out of the Organisation of American States if its sister body, the Inter-American Human Rights Court, condemns his government in a pending media-freedom case.It is one thing to badmouth the multilaterals but another to leave them, even for oil-rich Venezuela.
When we work together in a multilateral way, we can accomplish great things.
By the end of the meeting one thing was clear: the domination of multilateral institutions by a handful of developed countries is no longer tenable in a world where economic growth is on the side of the political grouping BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
Managing partner and sidekick Richard Frank, who runs the firm's day-to-day business and heads the investment committee, brings, among other things, experience with the agendas of multilateral institutions.
Long term strategic planning is sacrificed to reactive responses, with a senior official from a key multilateral reflecting on the demands of recurrent crises: "things happening all the time… everything is prioritized and urgent, and we don't manage; it's a vicious circle".
And the other thing we succeeded in doing was pushing forward important multilateral initiatives.
One day, though, things may change: as the eventual adoption of the earlier multilateral convention shows, international tax reform is not impossible, merely painfully slow.
For the cooperative design, the SUs work together to make decisions on such things as spectrum sensing, so that their decisions are usually multilateral and centrally controlled [15, 16].
China is also pushing to establish another multilateral lender, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which, as its name suggests, will concentrate on the same thing.
