Quotes About Multilateralism

I'm not a multilateralist against anybody. I'm a multilateralist because I believe in a multilateral order.

Empires in decay, blinded by their hubris and unable to accept their diminishing power, refuse to confront hard and unpleasant facts. They replace diplomacy, multilateralism, and politics with unilateral threats and the blunt instrument of war.

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.

The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

I'm a career diplomat. I spent 30 years as a diplomat, out of which seven years as foreign minister. I've always believed in the United Nations as a centre of multilateralism and multilateral diplomacy.

What keeps me awake at night is the issue of relevance of the United Nations.

The United Nations is the preeminent institution of multilateralism. It provides a forum where sovereign states can come together to share burdens, address common problems, and seize common opportunities. The U.N. helps establish the norms that many countries - including the United States - would like everyone to live by.

I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.

I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.

Historically, multilateralism is a way for weak countries to multiply their power by attaching themselves to stronger ones. But multilateralism imposed on Great Powers, and particularly on a unipolar power, is intended to restrain that power. Which is precisely why France is an ardent multilateralist. But why should America be?

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

The UN doesn't work in a vacuum.

If we want the next generation to be born into a better world, we only have one option. And that is strong multilateralism, with the U.N. System at its core.

I am a multilateralist. I am deeply convinced that there is no other way to deal with global challenges than with global responses, and organised in a multilateral way.

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.

La idea es que intentar la búsqueda de acuerdos —y la actuación conjunta— entre un número pequeño de países tiene más posibilidades de tener un efecto significativo que buscar la coordinación de, por ejemplo, ciento noventa países.