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Recommendation 17
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The UK should use its convening power and thought leadership to bring together nimble networks...
Recommendation
The UK should use its convening power and thought leadership to bring together nimble networks of like-minded nations by agreeing a baseline for cooperation between them. These coalitions would be open, issue-based, fleet-footed, overlapping, and even temporary: a ‘vari-lateral’ system.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government agrees with the recommendation and states it has already been working to convene and catalyse negotiations to reform multinational organisations like the UN, NATO, and the Commonwealth, providing examples of its ongoing efforts.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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18.1 We agree that the UK should be agile and flexible in its approach to partnerships. We will be pragmatic and open minded, working with countries with whom we find common cause, including emerging and regional powers. For example, on 12 October, the Prime Minister announced that the UK, along with Kenya, would host next year’s replenishment of the Global Partnership for Education. 18.2 In addition to our work in the international system and reinforced bilateral ties, small groups will play an important role in shaping the international response on a range of issues, and can be particularly helpful by being agile, adaptable and creative. For example, cooperation at E3, in small groups on Yemen and Myanmar, the Five Power Defence Arrangements, as well as the Five Eyes are all key to policy delivery across a range of foreign policy issues.
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