41.   The three countries have held bilateral negotiations on drawing sea boundaries, but their talks were complicated because of overlapping areas and disputed islands.

42.   The South hopes to sign a peace treaty directly with the North, while North Korea hopes to sign one with Washington through bilateral negotiations that would snub Seoul.

43.   The United States already has an open skies agreement with the Netherlands and is engaged in long-running bilateral negotiations for similar deals with Britain and Germany.

44.   They agreed that disputes over the Spratly Islands should be defused through bilateral negotiations, Syed Hamid said.

45.   Turkey wants bilateral negotiations instead.

46.   Foreign ministers of Indonesia and Australia capped a quarter century of bilateral negotiations here Friday by signing a series of treaties formalising maritime boundaries between their countries.

47.   Gutmann last month made an expince the beginning requested to take the case to the ICJ while Yemen has asked for bilateral negotiations.

48.   He added that one of the main problems arose in bilateral negotiations about the opening of the Japanese market.

49.   However Iran was ready to take part in bilateral negotiations with the Emirates without prior conditions to sweep away misunderstanding, he said.

50.   If the issue is taken to the world trade body, the two countries would start bilateral negotiations to solve the row.