The picture shows the Foreign Ministers of Canada, Ghana, Chile, France, Germany, Mexico and Singapore as well as a moderator sitting in a row to chair a ministerial meeting at the UN Headquarters in New York. Parts of the audience can be seen from the back.
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The Alliance for Multilateralism

At a time when key principles of the rules-based international order and essential instruments of international cooperation are challenged, the Alliance for Multilateralism aims at bringing together those who believe that strong and effective multilateral cooperation, based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and justice, are indispensable foundations to secure peace, stability and prosperity and who want to join hands to act along this endeavor.

We confirm our conviction that the major challenges of our time, by their nature and global scope, cannot be addressed by countries separately but must be tackled jointly – and that such a rules-based multilateral cooperation is also a key guarantee for the sovereign equality of states as epitomized in the United Nations General Assembly.

Declaration of Principles

PAST: Alliance for Multilateralism: Sustainable food systems, central to our common agenda: climate, health, environment, and the fight against inequalities

(c) David LEFRANC

(13 November 2021, 10:15-11:15 a.m. CET)

The transition to healthier, more sustainable, and more resilient food systems is central to achieving our common agenda and building back better after the Covid-19 pandemic. Following the United Nations Food Systems Summit held on 23 and 24 September 2021, this meeting, co-hosted by ministers Maas and Le Drian, will highlight the interactions between agricultural and food challenges on the one hand and environmental, health, nutrition, and inequalities challenges on the other.

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Statements

Portrait of the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian

Multilateralism is not a dogma; it’s not an ideology. It’s an effective method, and it’s a method that works. It’s up to us to focus on evidence-based multilateralism.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian
Portrait of German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas

Multilateralism remains our path in Europe. We will continue to be team players – and that is what we bring to the table.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas

#MultilateralismMatters

Joint Video of the Foreign Ministers of Ghana, Chile, Canada, Germany and France
Video by the French Foreign Ministry on the Ministerial Meeting in NY
Global conflicts, combating climate change, digital challenges, coping with the pandemic: they can only by mastered together. #MultilateralismMatters