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Recommendation 39
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We recommend that the Government’s engagement with multilaterals includes a tactical element of multilateral strategy...
Recommendation
We recommend that the Government’s engagement with multilaterals includes a tactical element of multilateral strategy such that it tracks the activities of authoritarian states within both higher and lower profile multilateral organisations, reports on implications of any moves to exert influence; and adjusts its interventions accordingly. We recommend that the FCDO should coordinate this unified approach across Whitehall, covering all multilateral organisations. Coalitions of like-minded states
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The Government agrees with the Committee that the UK and like-minded partners need to continue to defend the multilateral system and protect the mandates and values of individual organisations from those who seek to undermine them. We are consistently active in doing so in negotiations and in bilateral and multilateral discussions across the international system.