Currently the government refuses to include British nuclear weaponry in multilateral negotiations because it is on a much smaller scale than that of the US and Russia. (theguardian.com)
In the GATT multilateral negotiations on traded services much emphasis was laid on such standards as «market access», and «national treatment». (religion-online.org)
It is because of this lack of multilateral coordination that international rules governing foreign investment have been established through a myriad of international investment agreements (IIAs) negotiated and concluded either as bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between two countries, or through multilateral negotiations. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)