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Multilateral Relations
We cannot tackle global challenges alone. The EU is committed to preserving and strengthening the rules-based multilateral international order, with the United Nations at its core.
"Delivering the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Europe and the World: an EU Review of Progress", a UN HLPF side event hosted by the EU and Finland on Thursday, 18 July 2019, 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm, United Nations Headquarters New York, Conference Room 12
INSTEX, the mechanism which will facilitate trade with Iran, is now operational and its first transactions are being processed.
The world is a complex, rapidly changing and often dangerous place. The European Union believes that by working together through international cooperation, based on common rules and with effective global institutions such as the United Nations, enables the world to deal with complex issues such as climate change and conflict. This international approach, known as multilateralism, was re-endorsed by all 28 EU Foreign Ministers when they met at the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on 17th June.
