The bilateral bonds ran outside the government, too, with strongly pro-Israel public opinion, both among French Jews and non-Jews.
But it remains to be seen whether these country-to-country trade links will serve as building blocks or as substitutes for a wider, multilateral agreement.Singapore and Japan have led the way in pursuing bilateral bonds.
In the words of Manmohan Singh, the prime minister, its people "deeply loved" Mr Bush for his efforts to strengthen bilateral bonds between the world's biggest democracies.At the heart of this strengthening was a nuclear co-operation agreement that made India an exception to the global counter-proliferation regime and a more legitimate nuclear power.
Eurex, Deutsche Börse's derivatives exchange, already facilitates the bilateral trading of bonds and bond-repurchase agreements, cleared through Eurex Clearing.
Kinship is bilateral, involving important bonds to fathers' and mothers' patrilineages.
True, such a move would close off access to international bond markets, making bilateral borrowing from another country Greece's only option abroad.
France and the U.S. have always enjoyed historic bonds and a bilateral economic relationship.
bonds, established $95 billion in bilateral currency swaps with a clutch of countries and provided a third of the funds for a regional financial fall-back mechanism, she said.
These regional cooperation programs include, but not limited to: the ASEAN+3 process, the Chiang Mai Initiative, the East Asia Summit (EAS), the Asian Bond Market, and a series of bilateral and multilateral Free Trade Area (FTA) and Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA).
The threats started late last month when Xia Bin, head of financial research at a cabinet think tank, said China should use its gargantuan foreign exchange reserves, heavily invested in American Treasury bonds, as a "bargaining chip" in bilateral negotiations.
