Multilateral Quotes

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.

And we`ve become very doubtful of our information sources, because they`re all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.

We must focus much more on developing countries` own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There`s no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.