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"Intergovernmental cooperation and multilateral diplomacy are the best means of moving our societies forward"

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“Intergovernmental cooperation” and “multilateral diplomacy” sound like technocratic wallpaper, but that’s the point: Xavier Espot Zamora is selling stability as an ideology. The phrasing does two jobs at once. First, it frames progress as something that happens through process rather than charisma, through rooms full of negotiators rather than streets full of protestors. “Best means” is careful language: not a moral absolute, not a utopian promise, but a managerial claim that implies alternatives exist and are worse. It’s the rhetoric of a leader who wants the public to equate calm coordination with forward motion.

The subtext is defensive as much as aspirational. Coming from a minister - especially one governing a small state with outsized dependence on neighbors - multilateralism isn’t just a preference; it’s a survival strategy. It signals reliability to bigger powers and institutions: we’re predictable, we play by the rules, we won’t become a problem. At home, it subtly rebukes nationalist shortcuts and the fantasy that sovereignty means self-sufficiency. “Moving our societies forward” is deliberately plural: it widens the audience beyond borders, turning domestic policy into a shared project and making cooperation feel like common sense rather than concession.

What makes the line work is its quiet moral leverage. It doesn’t argue with opponents directly; it places them outside the modern. If progress is cooperative by definition, then the unilateralist isn’t merely wrong - they’re backward.

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TopicPeace
SourceSpeech to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), 8 April 2025 (PACE news write-up quoting Espot).
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Zamora, Xavier Espot. (2026, February 15). Intergovernmental cooperation and multilateral diplomacy are the best means of moving our societies forward. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/intergovernmental-cooperation-and-multilateral-185361/

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Zamora, Xavier Espot. "Intergovernmental cooperation and multilateral diplomacy are the best means of moving our societies forward." FixQuotes. February 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/intergovernmental-cooperation-and-multilateral-185361/.

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"Intergovernmental cooperation and multilateral diplomacy are the best means of moving our societies forward." FixQuotes, 15 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/intergovernmental-cooperation-and-multilateral-185361/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.

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Xavier Espot Zamora

Xavier Espot Zamora (born July 30, 1979) is a Minister from Andorra.

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