There is no sign of a bilateral deal on the allocation of the senior jobs being created by Lisbon.
Thus, even just a bilateral deal between the U.S. and China could potentially be more effective than Kyoto is now.
Of course, the big difference is that this is a multilateral, a six-nation process, where the 1994 agreement was more of a bilateral deal between the U.S. and North Korea.
Both the Russians and Americans say they are hopeful that a bilateral deal can be struck when Mr Bush visits Russia next week, at what might otherwise be a frosty meeting.
You would hope the Americans made it clear in the talks that a launch would be regarded not just as a breach of UNSC resolutions, but of the bilateral deal as well.
Mr Blustein uses his account of the tribulations of the Doha round to argue that the prospect of a retreat from multilateralism in trade in favour of protectionism (or even haphazard bilateral deal-making) is something that should bother people who care about poverty and development.
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Meanwhile, the United States is close to completing a bilateral trade deal with Chile.
The idea of a bilateral trade deal between America and the European Union has been around at least since the Europeans unsuccessfully touted a transatlantic free-trade area five years ago.
Now only Greece, Ireland and Spain, along with Britain, have no bilateral open-skies deal.
The National Security Council denied at the time that there was any deal for bilateral talks with Iran.
As is the case with a country like China, we have a whole host of bilateral issues that we deal with countries on, as we did in the recent trip.
The US and Cuba broke off diplomatic relations in 1961, but have maintained interest sections in each other's capitals for the past three decades to provide consular services and deal with bilateral issues.
There are more chills and spills to come: Congress still has to approve the deal and a similar bilateral agreement needs to be reached with the European Union.
For one thing, the Bush Administration should interpose the strongest possible objections to putatively allied governments in London and The Hague that export guarantees and insuranceunderwrite such an investment. for this deal would seriously complicate bilateral and trilateral relations.
We have important partnerships that lead to increasing our security, increasing our economic growth, and increasing the likelihood that we deal with important problems in having strong bilateral relationships with places like Indonesia and Australia.
President Bush, in the civilian nuclear deal, was an important step in our bilateral relationship.
However, Mr Hua and many other Chinese experts stress that the focus of the visits is on bilateral trade and investment rather than Beijing brokering a peace deal.
The first readings of the security deal and another U.S.-Iraqi bilateral pact -- the strategic framework agreement -- were held in parliament Monday.
The bilateral deals will mostly remain in place until an EU-wide deal can supplant them.
The benefits of a multilateral trade deal are vastly superior to those of a patchwork of bilateral and regional agreements.
John Weekes told me that these days, bilateral negotiations are a competitive game - the first one in gets the best deal.
If finalized, the deal -- dubbed the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership -- would be the biggest bilateral trade agreement ever negotiated.
Finally, the IMF had a limited amount of resources available to deal with the Asian Crisis and had to mobilize additional resources from other international organizations and bilateral sources.
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The U.S. and EU have been focusing on bilateral deals with trading partners as it became clear that talks at the World Trade Organization on a global deal -- the Doha round -- were making little progress.
Bilateral agreements, thus, do not, on the whole, serve as stepping stones to a comprehensive global deal.
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