To respect Soviet sensibilities, the plan would be monitored by the multilateral institutions.

There are several multilateral institutions in which such issues should be addressed.

The Program also includes work on multilateral financial institutions.

"That's why a multilateral institution like the Security Council is the appropriate place for this," he said.

"The multilateral institutions need the capacity to deal with such crises."

A framework should be developed for determining the level of contributions to regional and multilateral institutions.

Beyond this, it had little economic importance and did not function as a multilateral institution in any proper sense of the term.

It is that in creating more effective multilateral institutions, individual nations yield up some of their own independence.

What they fear is effective multilateral institutions that do their own will.

Western countries and multilateral institutions were also relieved to have someone they knew so well at the heart of Russian economic policy.