The Social Democratic and Labour Party has also held bilateral talks with the two prime ministers.
The bilateral talks are now chiefly over inducements to the Pakistanis to reopen the supply route.
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On January 19th America and Europe ended another dispute the old-fashioned way, through bilateral talks.
Thailand insists that bilateral talks can resolve the border dispute and rejects outside mediation.
And the if you enter bilateral talks, they'll be happy to walk away from the table.
Mr Cameron held his bilateral talks with Mr Obama in a gym at Camp David, our correspondent says.
Mr Hill's discussions in Beijing involved some bilateral talks with North Korea's deputy foreign minister, Kim Gye Gwan.
The National Security Council denied at the time that there was any deal for bilateral talks with Iran.
Probably the only sharp note during bilateral talks earlier in February came when the Americans raised the semiconductor topic.
Also in January, Mr Vajpayee will attend a regional summit in Islamabad, an opportunity for bilateral talks with Pakistan too.
Expected in Kaohsiung this month for an environmental conference is Yang Xiaoming, deputy secretary of China's semi-official body handling bilateral talks.
I'm going to do it in four years, and I'm going to immediately set out to have bilateral talks with North Korea.
But North Korea again insisted on first holding bilateral talks with America.
Even within the hotel, the logistics of arranging bilateral talks proved hard.
Delhi is still sticking to its stance that bilateral talks with Pakistan cannot go ahead until more action is taken in this area.
It will be the third round of bilateral talks since last summer, aimed at restarting six-nation aid-for-disarmament negotiations on North Korea's nuclear program.
In bilateral talks at the meeting, Thailand and Cambodia made no progress on their dispute over the Preah Vihear temple on their border.
After last month's agreement on steps towards ending its nuclear programme, North Korea started bilateral talks on normalising relations with both America and Japan.
In July this year India cancelled bilateral talks on security co-operation, blaming Pakistan's military intelligence agency for a suicide attack on India's embassy in Afghanistan.
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When it does, the countries engage in a lengthy period of bilateral talks followed, if necessary, by the appointment of an expert panel to weigh the issue.
Granted, bilateral talks between the two countries failed once before, but a failure does not mean that it cannot be attempted again, especially given the changed conditions.
And South Korea shows no sign of withdrawing its offer to supply North Korea with fertiliser in return for resuming bilateral talks in Beijing on June 21st.
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The outcome of the election will set the tone of Iran's policies on crucial issues, including the possibility of bilateral talks with Washington and its nuclear ambitions.
And in August, North Korean diplomats traveled to New Mexico to meet with Gov. Bill Richardson, where they were open to direct bilateral talks with the United States.
"We were left with no choice but to suspend our direct bilateral talks with Sudan, " said Atif Kiir, the spokesman for Juba's delegation at the talks in Addis Ababa.
But in bilateral talks with America's president, George Bush, Mr Putin proposed joint use of radar stations in Azerbaijan, as an answer to American defence concerns east of Europe.
Among the issues agreed upon was launching military dialogue to reduce tensions (a senior South Korean official later said that bilateral talks would be held between the respective defense ministers).
Moreover, Kim was able to parlay the good will he received for the release of the two journalists into bilateral talks this month with Stephen Bosworth, President Obama's special envoy.
America is pursuing a regional trade agreement for the Americas, has signed bilateral deals with Chile and Singapore, has begun bilateral talks with 14 other countries, and promises many more.
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