In fact, he offered his advice to both the parties and as some say, even managed to see that they quarrel. Anyway, certainly the type of problems that we have are complicated and it does require substantial input of expertise and international experience to solve them.
2  A classic contribution to the literature on policy coordination, reflecting the conventional wisdom, can be found in G. Oudiz and J. Sachs (1984), “Macroeconomic Policy Coordination among the Industrial Countries”, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1, 1-64.