Cooperative Solutions Quotes

All problems in the world today are multilateral, and all these one-on-one agreements simply aren't going to do it.

The United Nations should serve as a forum to address our common challenges. And it must also be a space to generate solutions for mutual benefit. This is the very essence of what the United Nations is about. We must position the multilateral system to better serve our people and deliver on their aspirations.

We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.

I am a multilateralist. I am deeply convinced that there is no other way to deal with global challenges than with global responses, and organised in a multilateral way.

Global challenges require collective responses.

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts.

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.

No one country can solve problems which are becoming transborder, transitional, common threats and challenges.