Seanad debates
Thursday, 27 November 2003
Address by President of the European Parliament.
This is why I mentioned the UN and effective multilateralism, because we Europeans are more committed by our preferences, state by state and collectively, to a multilateral order, whereas the US Administration perhaps fears the Gulliverisation of a giant – that the pygmies could tie it down through so many bonds of multilateral interconnection. Somehow we must develop multilateralism to be effective, keep the US engaged and avoid any tendency to drift towards selective unilateralism or selective multilateralism.
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