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For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral…

— Victor Fung

To help resolve conflicts, the rules-based multilateral trading system should be strengthened and modernized to encompass areas such as digital services, subsidies, and technology…

— Gita Gopinath

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

— Antonio Guterres

In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation…

— Roberto Azevedo

Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of…

— Chris Patten

There is a need for greater multilateral cooperation to resolve trade conflicts, to address climate change and risks from cybersecurity, and to improve the…

— Gita Gopinath

Multilateral diplomacy is hard. It's slower, it's tougher, it's a bigger slog. I've learned that sometimes the things you'd most like to do something…

— Condoleezza Rice

We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global…

— Lawrence Summers

Liberalized trade - in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements - is a key ingredient in the recipe for prosperity... An absolute prerequisite for…

— Kevin Hassett

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the…

— Dana Rohrabacher

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

— Arancha Gonzalez

Facing dramatic global challenges, we need a global capacity to address them that reaffirms the importance of multilateralism and the importance of a rules-based…

— Antonio Guterres