bilaterals

The official reason was "bilaterals" -- which will almost certainly include urgent caucasing about the new political alliance formed out of the splinters of the Concerned South

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

Well, with China, we have a, what we call formal bilaterals, which is just I sit down with the Chinese Foreign Minister, there are officials there, there are note takers and record keepers; it's a formal meeting.

Interview with David Reyne and Kim Watkins, 9am with David and Kim - Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs 2008

But even before then, Secretary Powell is going to be holding a series of private meetings known as bilaterals with the other -- the remaining members of the Security Council that he hadn't met with before his presentation.

CNN Transcript Feb 5, 2003 2003

"Vast multinational conferences, like the G20 summit ... are useful mainly for the 'bilaterals' -- the one-on-one side-room conversations -- and, in these forums, President Barack Obama is living up to high expectations.

Ghost in the Machine 2009

The key messages that seemed to flow from four days of speeches, panels, "bilaterals"

BusinessWeek.com -- 2009

The key messages that seemed to flow from four days of speeches, panels, "bilaterals"

European Tribune 2009

"bilaterals" (what diplomats call those critical one-on-one meetings) and in each he will deliver a message similar to the one delivered earlier this week by Prime Minister David

Thestar.com - Home Page 2010

While the Paris Survey has already shown that donors mostly failed to meet the targets they set in the Paris Declaration as Owen Barder points out, QuODA drills deeper, identifying specific areas of relative strength and weakness, for countries, major bilaterals, and individual aid agencies.

Nancy Birdsall: Just in Time for Busan: New Measures of Aid Effectiveness Nancy Birdsall 2011

This is where he is behaving more like a salesman for the corporates whose arm-twisting antics in WTO and numerous bilaterals being signed world over have still not opened up the kind of market they always dream.

Devinder Sharma: When will America Open Its Markets, Mr. Obama? Devinder Sharma 2010

This is where he is behaving more like a salesman for the corporates whose arm-twisting antics in WTO and numerous bilaterals being signed world over have still not opened up the kind of market they always dream.

Devinder Sharma: When will America Open Its Markets, Mr. Obama? Devinder Sharma 2010