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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It means governments and multilateral agencies listening more to non-governmental organizations and to ordinary citizens.
This frightening scenario could be substantially blurred by the central involvement of faceless multilateral institutions.
G7's other motive to avoid more Argentine defaults to multilateral financial institutions has even less merit.
The conclusion of the WTO Agreement will improve market access and reinforce the multilateral trade system.
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The Obama administration deserves credit for establishing a broad, multilateral sanctions regime targeting the IRGC.
The history of the multilateral trading system is littered with rows, hiatuses, disillusion, despair and sudden success.
Now that Beijing is pushing for a multilateral world, it needs to pay the price.
As a first step, the president has convinced multilateral bodies to step up lending.
Mr Sarkozy seems to think similarly, calling for a multilateral approach to the monetary system.
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The Paper calls for the creation of a new multilateral fund to back national reconstruction.
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.
Islamabad is dependent on loans and aid from multilateral agencies where Washington carries great weight.
America can at least choose whether to act alone or to hide behind multilateral institutions.
The multilateral trading system recognises that governments have legitimate aims other than free trade.
Once the congressional politicking is over, she will replace the doveish, multilateral-minded Colin Powell.
At Seattle itself, the Americans still talk of launching a new round of multilateral trade negotiations.
Japan, bullied by America to enforce its own laws more tightly, would prefer a multilateral approach.
And the treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, has been dismissive of American participation in multilateral aid efforts.
The United States can no longer wait upon a multilateral consensus to take such steps.
On a coordinated, multilateral basis the West should assist Eastern Europe in diversifying its energy supplies.
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Restarting trade between Cuba and the U.S. would require a huge bailout from multilateral financial institutions.
As the multilateral system takes on ever more issues, this structure may become unworkable.
In pursuit of that goal, we will develop regional initiatives with multilateral participation, alongside bilateral negotiations.
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So far, they have been determined that any settlement should be a multilateral one.
The BRICs are giving more through multilateral channels, moving away from their usual government-to-government help.
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At present, however, none of the plethora of multilateral institutions has competition policy within its remit.
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