Japan also says the matter was settled in bilateral agreements with South Korea in the 1960s.
Meanwhile various unsigned bilateral agreements, including a crucial one on energy, are gathering dust in Brussels.
When bilateral agreements are attractive to companies, it is often for the wrong reasons.
Bilateral agreements, thus, do not, on the whole, serve as stepping stones to a comprehensive global deal.
The resolution authorizes Iraq to negotiate bilateral agreements with the countries, said Kurdish lawmaker Mahmoud Othman.
Mr Yilmaz, in his visits to Amman and Tel Aviv, was accompanied by scores of businessmen and completed several bilateral agreements.
The resolution authorizes Iraq to negotiate bilateral agreements with the other countries.
These will prove thorny, too, as any global talks will have to cope with a spaghetti bowl of bilateral agreements dating back decades.
It will bring together an array of senior U.S. and Soviet officials who, in various working groups, will be charged with developing formal bilateral agreements.
The Arroyo regime signed more than 65 bilateral agreements with China.
Progress on forestry has come about largely through national efforts, helped by lower demand for commodities and reinforced by bilateral agreements to do with climate change.
The US has signed bilateral agreements with 37 countries that had ratified the ICC, in which signatories would not turn over American personnel to the court.
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For example, the National Foundation for American Policy has proposed establishing fully portable work permits as part of bilateral agreements with Mexico and Central American countries.
In the past two months, the U.S. Department of Energy has completed bilateral agreements with Japan, Korea and India that will increase collaboration on methane hydrates research.
This was because of the "archaic spider's web" of thousands of bilateral agreements which had been the legal framework underpinning international air travel since the post-war period.
While the report said that it wasn't possible, in most cases, to show whether the taxation was legitimate, such activities are often exempt from taxation under bilateral agreements.
And now a new era of agonised decision-making may be approaching, because Brussels has told the Swiss government the EU is no longer interested in pursuing bilateral agreements.
Japan's parliament approved nuclear-cooperation accords in December that open the door for exports to Jordan and Vietnam, which follow similar bilateral agreements struck with Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia and Turkey.
MEPs asked whether this agreement was in line with the EU Savings Tax Directive, which allows the EU to negotiate such agreements en masse, rather than in bilateral agreements by individual countries.
Some defenders of bilateralism admit all this, but cling to one argument they regard as clinching that bilateral agreements are at least possible, whereas the chances of concluding Doha seem ever more remote.
But the State Department has similar five-year bilateral agreements with eight other countries, restricting importation of objects like pre-Columbian masks from Bolivia, Khmer statues from Cambodia and historic terra cotta sculptures from Mali.
Long forgotten now, it was only in September 2008 when Deputy Prime Minister, Igor Sechin was dispatched to OPEC meetings to try and strike bilateral agreements with cartel members when prices plummeted.
They might attach strings to a fast-track deal that Mr Bush will find difficult to accept, such as generous compensation for workers displaced by foreign competition, or the enforcement of labour standards in America's bilateral agreements.
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The Foreign Office claims it is seeking bilateral agreements with other countries but so far it has signed up only two: Thailand, where there are 36 Britons in jail, and Egypt, where there is only one.
We will continue to work together to counter financial support for terrorism, disrupt the possible connections between terrorist networks and criminal groups, prevent the spread of violent extremism, and improve transportation security, including by concluding bilateral agreements in this field.
The proposals will force all EU countries to notify the Commission of any agreements they wish to maintain that were concluded before the Lisbon Treaty and will give the Commission the power to review all bilateral agreements to ensure they are in compliance with EU law.
Western Union's value proposition to a local operator: Rather than sign 200 bilateral agreements to offer remittances in 200 different markets, "connect into our global network, and we will allow that local service to become a global service, " says Matt Dill, general manager of Western Union Mobile.
Should the United States now disrupt the British program due to its inability to supply D-5 missiles when and in the quantity called for by bilateral agreements, it could have a catastrophic effect on the viability of the U.K. Trident and severely strain relations between two key allied governments.
We negotiated more than nine foreign-trade agreements and eight bilateral investment agreements.
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