You have a normal vertical straw and someone comes along with a multilateral straw.
Far better for Mr Obama to seek a multilateral solution while focusing on rebalancing at home.
The vehicle for this effort is a Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters.
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Mr Sarkozy seems to think similarly, calling for a multilateral approach to the monetary system.
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We had the support of the Arab League to act in a multilateral fashion.
In July 2003, it established and led a multilateral, but overwhelmingly Australian, regional-assistance mission.
Japan, bullied by America to enforce its own laws more tightly, would prefer a multilateral approach.
The United States can no longer wait upon a multilateral consensus to take such steps.
So far, they have been determined that any settlement should be a multilateral one.
Security Council Resolution 1929 and, again, that provides a multilateral framework for the sanctions that are in place.
The substitution of four states for one in this bilateral 1972 treaty would convert it to a multilateral treaty.
The benefits of a multilateral trade deal are vastly superior to those of a patchwork of bilateral and regional agreements.
As a multilateral, it is also finding a synergy with bilateral programs such as PEPFAR and PMI in several countries.
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So perhaps the administration will give China one last chance and seek a multilateral remedy at the G20 in June.
In 2000 ASEAN along with China, Japan and South Korea launched a multilateral arrangement of currency swaps, the Chiang Mai Initiative.
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The U.S.-Brazil bilateral relations are, for Brazil, a very important relationship, not only from a bilateral but also from a multilateral perspective.
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Instead, in Costa Rica, the 34 countries agreed to a multilateral process.
With Doha paralysed, regional alternatives to a multilateral deal are springing up.
Still, there are areas where a multilateral approach is plain common sense and works to level the playing field with regards to global trade.
Powell's comments came following a meeting with Cook, who echoed Powell's call for calm and called for a multilateral approach toward the peace process.
While there are no plans for a one-on-one with Chavez, the Venezuelan president is expected to be among several leaders at a multilateral meeting, Gibbs said.
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Neither the new annual chair, Cambodia, nor the next two, Brunei and Myanmar, are likely to risk antagonising China by making the sea a multilateral issue.
And he has backed up that talk with these sanctions that have been put in place both on a multilateral scale, but also bilaterally as well.
"They give us the chance to test the way the different services and different nations work together, something that is vital in a multilateral world, " he added.
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Some rich countries, such as Canada and Australia, are eager for a multilateral pact in order to protect their interests as companies based in other countries consolidate.
There will be a Board of Governors meeting of the IAEA in Vienna, so that's the next venue where this will be discussed in a multilateral basis.
Some claim that the tricky issues that stand in the way of a multilateral deal can be more easily resolved when only two countries are sitting at the table.
Of course, the big difference is that this is a multilateral, a six-nation process, where the 1994 agreement was more of a bilateral deal between the U.S. and North Korea.
Moreover, all the main support measures undertaken in Central and Eastern Europe, like the Vienna Initiative, for instance, were not legally binding agreements, but based on voluntary participation within a multilateral framework.
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