But it has been complicated by a bilateral agreement on adoption.
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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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.
Finally, by transforming a bilateral agreement into a multilateral one, the Clinton Administration would effectively be giving three additional nations a veto over changes to the ABM Treaty .
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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This will be facilitated by bringing into force and implementing the bilateral adoptions agreement signed last year.
No sooner had the Senate finished approving the so-called New START Treaty by the closest margin of any bilateral arms control agreement with Moscow than the accord's principal architect served notice of her ambitious plans for further denuclearizing the United States.
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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.
Just a couple of days after Christmas, Putin signed into law a ban on adoptions of Russian children by U.S. citizens, abrogating a bilateral agreement which went into force in the previous month.
The JCC sessions will also lay the groundwork for ultimate negotiation of a full-blown bilateral Trade Agreement, of the type abrogated by the Soviet Union in early 1975 over the Jackson-Vanik amendment.
But he added that a bilateral security agreement between the US and Afghanistan is expected by November of this year.
Without both, Ecuador will not get the stand-by agreement with the Fund that it needs to renegotiate its debts to bilateral official lenders abroad, and open the door to new multilateral lending.
Importantly, the agreement creates a United States-Afghanistan bilateral commission that will be chaired by foreign ministers on both sides that will meet semi-annually and that will oversee implementation of this agreement and other agreements with the Afghans.
While the relocation faces some opposition in Congress and Japan, the announcement of an agreement signaled a desire by the countries to work together on a way forward in bilateral relations.
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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.
The presidency council also approved a U.S.-Iraqi bilateral pact called the strategic framework agreement, which covers a wide range of bilateral cooperation efforts and which was approved by the Iraqi parliament last week.
TOKYO Japan and India agreed to deepen bilateral ties by strengthening their economic and defense cooperation and to reopen talks for a nuclear-energy agreement that would let Japanese companies export nuclear reactors and technology to India.
Indeed, it appears the summit is intended by both President Bush and President Gorbachev to be a vehicle for the endorsement of initiatives ranging from a comprehensive bilateral trade agreement to intensified cooperation in the strategic energy sector of the Soviet economy to the facilitation of Soviet bond sales and other forms of borrowing in the United States and Western markets.
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