Between the 16 members bilateral and multilateral arrangements are in place or under negotiation.

Instead, the U.S. should marshal its power within a web of multilateral arrangements, or it will create all sorts of problems.

The Metering and Reconciliation Information Agreement (MARIA) was set up as a multilateral arrangement to allow for retail competition for customers with half-hour interval meters.

Who could in any case regard the vicious programme of austerity measures prescribed by multilateral arrangements as any kind of solution?

Besides, the A.B.A. is now committing itself to multilateral arrangements with foreign bar associations rather than individual agreements.

Canadian diplomat Geoffrey Pearson argued that "effective multilateral arrangements provide a means to exert influence on major allies and powerful neighbours as well as help maintain peace".

The Europeans, accustomed by their history and geography to think in terms of multilateral arrangements, have always placed a greater premium on international organizations.

If there is no alternative, Council, Commission and Parliament might in the last resort look at the possibility of bilateral rather than multilateral arrangements.

Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld thought America should flex its hyperpower muscles, castrating the U.N. and blowing off multilateral arrangements.

Instead, I heard too many speakers evading this current pivot point in history by giving airy-fairy speeches about their grand visions of the future architecture of distant multilateral arrangements.