Sentences with phrase «bilateral issues»

By putting aside their differences over the most contentious bilateral issues, Barack Obama and Xi Jinping focused on items that could further expand China and America's shared interests.

Will their leaders now show the necessary political resolve to put the Himalayan rivalry behind them and move on to settle other outstanding bilateral issues (like Kashmir) for the sake of viable peace in South Asia?

Sarkozy and Cameron also had significant differences of opinion on EU issues but the two men managed to put them aside while addressing bilateral issues.

I recall that during a visit to Senegal with the Chief of Defence Staff, we spoke on very serious bilateral issues on the need to encourage our Francophone brother nations to give us the neccesary support to defeat Boko Haram.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a statement to ClimateWire: «At the upcoming meeting of their presidents, the United States and Brazil will address the broad range of bilateral issues that engage them.

Then he will travel to Riyadh, Jerusalem, and Amman to discuss critical regional and bilateral issues, before returning to the US on April 30.

During that trip he is expected to visit Saudi Arabia and Jordan to «discuss critical and bilateral issues», according to a statement from the state department.

Finally, Bulgaria also has some bilateral issues and went as far as using its veto to prevent Macedonia from entering the formal negotiation phase so they would also need to be appeased to go forward (the Commission has recommended starting negotiations with Macedonia five times since 2009 and the Council, which represents member states, blocked it, presumably at the behest of Greece and Bulgaria, which have a veto there).

To expand on the answer by James K, the recognition of other states is mostly a bilateral issue between states, and governed as much by realpolitik as by principle.

Learn how to make the conversation a bilateral issue, ask a question and wait for a response, exchange of views, etc... Discussion at eye level, i.e. to them, but not on the floor or somewhere in the distance.