Moreover, the fear of losing favourable treatment in a bilateral agreement can deter governments from talking tough in multilateral negotiations.
One answer might be a bilateral agreement between Hungary and Slovakia which echoed the provisions of the law without mentioning it.
But it has been complicated by a bilateral agreement on adoption.
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For example, the U.S. and Afghan governments signed a bilateral agreement in 2003 that states the U.S. government, its military and civilian personnel and contractors aren't liable for Afghan taxes.
The transfer of advanced U.S. technology and arrangements for some "flow-back" of Japanese innovations were authorized by a bilateral agreement between the two governments concluded in November 1988 after years of negotiation.
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His reported remarks come as the United States and Iraq are trying to reach a bilateral agreement on how long the U.S. military will remain in Iraq and what role it will play in Iraq's security.
Another al-Maliki adviser, Sadeq al-Rikabi, said the contract would be temporary since the U.N. mandate under which the United States operates in Iraq will expire at the end of the year, to be replaced by a bilateral agreement under negotiation.
"The only way an international airline can fly from one country to another is if there's a bilateral agreement between the two countries -- and that agreement will invariably express that each airline has to be substantially owned and effectively controlled by nationals of their country, " he said.
Although some 30, 000 of the 74, 000 Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia are reported to have left by June 1990 and the remainder are scheduled to be removed from Czechoslovakian soil by June 1991 pursuant to a bilateral agreement between Moscow and Prague signed earlier this year, key headquarters and logistical elements remain in place and available to support a much larger military force in the future.
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The agreement commits the United States and Afghanistan to initiate negotiations on a bilateral security agreement, to supersede our current status of forces agreement.
Mr Karzai and Mr Obama committed to crafting a bilateral security agreement as soon as possible.
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But he added that a bilateral security agreement between the US and Afghanistan is expected by November of this year.
Washington and Kabul are negotiating a bilateral security agreement that would allow for a small force to conduct training and counterterrorism missions.
Bush said he also believed that the U.S. would develop a bilateral strategic agreement relationship with Iraq, a pact now under negotiation.
The United States has negotiated a bilateral security agreement in Iraq that requires the departure of all U.S. troops by the end of 2011.
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.
It also throws a pall over ongoing negotiations for a bilateral security agreement that would govern the presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after the current combat mission ends in 2014.
That is especially bad news for Mercosur, an agricultural superpower, which is one of the few areas in the region not actively negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with the United States.
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The US and Afghanistan are negotiating a bilateral security agreement that will determine the number of US troops to remain after most foreign combat troops leave Afghanistan by the end of next year.
But the Afghan leader's trip to Washington has been seen as a crucial step in negotiations over a bilateral security agreement that will determine the number and the function of US troops remaining in Afghanistan beyond 2014.
Using the pretext of the years' end expiration of the U.S.-Soviet START Treaty, the President has dispatched an inveterate denuclearizer, Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, to negotiate in haste a new bilateral agreement with the Russians.
Disagreements over the detention facility, which also included whether Afghans can be held without trial, had thrown a pall over the ongoing negotiations for a bilateral security agreement that would govern the presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after 2014.
It also seems likely that the German government will not adequately resist such pressures, much as it sought to reopen the border issue with Poland a few short years ago after a bilateral reconciliation agreement had been concluded between Bonn and Warsaw.
In other words, President Bush risks having a unilateral decision to reduce American strategic nuclear forces by two-thirds over the next decade morphed by his Secretary of State into a binding bilateral agreement, replete with verification mechanisms carried forward from earlier arms control treaties.
Trade between the countries has been growing ever since they reached a bilateral free-trade agreement five years ago.
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Meanwhile, two-way trade between India and Sri Lanka, which signed a bilateral free-trade agreement in 1999, is ballooning.
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One result has been that Australia is now the only major economy to have a bilateral free-trade agreement with America while also actively discussing one with China.
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.
Advancing the Soviet demand for a full-blown bilateral Trade Agreement to be consummated at the upcoming 1990 summit between Presidents Bush and Gorbachev.
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