The Clinton administration cannot create such a tripwire simply by entering into a trilateral peacekeeping arrangement.
Such an alliance, however, cannot be built on a trilateral peacekeeping agreement including Syria.
The U.S. will still be a leading player, but in a septagonal, not a trilateral, world.
And there was not part of our agenda a trilateral meeting, so there is no problem.
We just finished an important trilateral meeting among the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Mr Medvedev has invested time and effort in what will be his fifth trilateral meeting.
The first two rounds of the trilateral talks were held in Kabul and New York last year.
It will be the third round of discussions since Mr Cameron instigated the trilateral process last year.
This has not only been demonstrated in both bilateral and trilateral relationships, but also in well established multilateral institutions.
But before leaving Ottawa this month, Emilio Goicoechea, Mexico's ambassador, wrote a rebuttal urging Canada to stay the trilateral course.
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Despite all the talk of American decline, the countries that face the most painful changes are the old trilateral partners.
While this did not happen solely because of the trilateral accord, economists generally agree that NAFTA has been a significant contributor.
Today's meeting is the second in the trilateral dialogues among our countries.
They flock to elite gatherings such as the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Trilateral Commission and the Boao meeting in China.
And these trilateral meetings build on efforts being made in the region and in the United States, and they will continue on a regular basis.
The U.S. needs to build a similar network of relationships and institutional linkages that we built in postwar Europe and Japan and deepened in the trilateral years.
This is why the original trilateral partners joined the U.S. in promoting it a generation ago, and why the world's rising powers will rally to the cause today.
The main obstacle to trilateral co-operation is that Canada and Mexico are much more interested in their relations with the United States than they are in each other.
Western Europe and Japan were seen as rising powers in the 1970s, and the assumption was that the trilateral partnership would become more powerful and effective as time passed.
"This trilateral meeting reaffirmed the steps that North Korea should take in order for six-party talks to produce results, " Mrs Clinton said at a joint news conference after the Washington talks.
Although Mr Volcker resumed his banking career on Wall Street after his government service, he continued to serve on various advisory committees, including the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission.
IBM, membership of advisory boards at Citigroup and DaimlerChrysler, and one of the six deputy chairmanships of the Trilateral Commission, the body of grandees which in anti-globalist demonology supposedly runs the planet.
The result today is that the trilateral partnership can no longer serve as the only or perhaps even the chief set of relationships through which the U.S. can foster a liberal world system.
And here in Europe, she's also telling the Europeans that, in addition to this trilateral meeting, we're going to try to revive this "quartet, " which is the U.S., Russia, European Union and United Nations.
So what she did was, she announced that she'll be meeting, holding a trilateral meeting, with Palestinian President Abbas, and with Israel's President Ehud Olmert, to talk about the contours of a Palestinian state.
"It's a very complicated process, and I don't think necessarily not having a trilateral meeting should be read as anything other than that it just didn't work out, " he told the TV station Monday.
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China was noncommittal to attending the trilateral meeting.
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If, by proposing a trilateral summit with France and Germany, Mr Yeltsin was trying the old Russian tactic of driving a wedge between America and its European allies, his prospects of success look dimmer than usual.
On Wednesday the three men will hold a joint meeting - alongside Afghan Defence Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi and Pakistani Foreign Secretary Jalil Jilani - as part of what the US describes as "an ongoing trilateral dialogue".
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