In 1993, the United States handed over command of multinational forces in Somalia to the United Nations.

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Soon thereafter, France, Italy and the United States formed a multinational force to help stabilize the country -- as differing factions of Arabs and Christians as well as the Israelis and Syrians were in a tangled web of conflict -- and allow PLO fighters to leave the country.

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While the Bush Administration made it clear that it was up to the Saudis to invite the USSR to send ground troops to participate in the multinational force, it noted that the United States would have no objection if Saudi Arabia did so.

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So President Reagan decided to withdraw U.S. forces from what would likely become a major military quagmire for the United States, instead of a multinational peacekeeping operation.

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Turning to security for the United Nations in Iraq, he said that the distinct entities of the Multinational Force, notably the Georgians, Romanians and South Koreans, continued to provide security for the United Nations in Baghdad, Basra and Erbil, respectively.

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Thus, at the end of 1995 it organised its first ever multinational Implementation Force (Ifor), under a United Nations mandate to implement the military aspects of the Bosnian peace agreement.

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Recent interest in bottom-of-the-pyramid consumers has caused some multinational corporations to modify their product offerings in the United States so that they are within the financial reach of consumers in South Asia.

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The United States introduced a resolution asking the United Nations to approve the creation of a multinational force in Iraq.

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By a quirk of history, the United States rose to great power at the same time multinational corporations were emerging as a decisive force in world affairs.

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Of the top 500 Multinational Companies as ranked by Fortune Magazine, 133 are headquartered in the United States.

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For multinational corporations, China has become their most important market next to only the United States.

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It could obtain the guarantee thus far not provided by the United States or Britain -- namely that the use of elements of the multinational force would not occur without the express approval of the Soviet Union, either through bilateral contacts or through the U.N.

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That may make it tricky for multinational corporations that want to standardize on a particular app, including for workers outside of the United States.

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The FIDH is a multinational human rights body made up of 164 groups across the world, with delegations at the United Nations in Geneva, the European Union in Brussels and the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

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The multinational corporation argued that there is too tenuous a connection between what allegedly happened in Nigeria and the United States.

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