plurilateral

Examples

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• The WTO-GPA is a plurilateral agreement within the framework of the WTO that aims to open the $1.7 trillion annual government procurement market to international competition.

  Academic text (2017)

• As for multilateral agreements, ratification would be compulsory for any new member of a world environment organization, but plurilateral agreements would still leave members the option to remain outside.

  Academic text (2000)

• Again, following WTO usage, environmental regimes covered by the organization could be divided into multilateral and plurilateral environmental agreements.

  Academic text (2000)

• Plurilateral initiatives, such as the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH), also began expanding their constituencies.

  Academic text (2016)

• The standards can only be optimally beneficial if they are coupled with a strong emphasis on plurilateral negotiations on a sectoral basis, which can result in some elements of harmonization, some elements of mutual acceptance of conformity assessment regimes, and some elements of mutual recognition of standards.

  Academic text (1998)

• The trade summit resulted in several plurilateral agreements that included only a few member countries.

• During the conference, they discussed plurilateral negotiations that would involve most, but not all, nations in the trade talks.

Synonyms

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multilateral

vsplurilateral

• Formal

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Involving several countries or groups working together

is used when only some parties join not every party

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