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Ashton said the talks were "detailed and substantive. " The talks were the first time negotiators had met on the issue in more than a year.

It's been a pleasure talking with you. Mr. Xu. You are one of the best negotiators I've ever know.

Chief negotiators and those working solo must "psyche up" for every round of meetings as if it were the first round.

It has no official status yet, and must be formally approved before negotiators can start to whittle it down.

Once the professional negotiators who work for both sides have agreed on a sum, the money is usually dropped from a light aircraft.

They used to be taken as inexperienced and uneducated negotiators with little to offer except a polite "thank you" to their benefactors .

A year ago this month, World Trade Organisation negotiators drove into a cul-de-sac.

U. S. negotiators spent weeks trying to line up Chinese purchases and investments that the White House could announce.

He said he and the Japanese, European and American negotiators huddled in the early hours to achieve a breakthrough.

Saudis do not believe that the negotiators, with the general requirements of manufacturers of direct negotiations.

The American negotiators sat down in Brazil and immediately declared it impossible to get rid of the cotton subsidies right away.

The G77 negotiators continued to engage in negotiations, hoping for these to be part of the final agreed outcome.

In retrospect it is not hard to see why the Kyoto agreement failed to have much impact. Future negotiators will have to do better.

Crucially, the negotiators were isolated from financial executives in New York who might have tried to limit an escalation in bidding.

Bolivia may have been an irritant and an obstruction but the other negotiators knew it was right about this.

Climate change negotiators are trying to come up with a workable draft document to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

Negotiators for the Copenhagen summit are trying to agree on a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol to limit carbon emissions.

But negotiators conceded this year that there was no chance of a legally binding deal.

One point most researchers seem to agree on is that good negotiators try to create a harmonious atmosphere at the start of a negotiation.

Stern Hu, the Australian executive detained by China, was one of Rio Tinto's top price negotiators .

Maybe it was the sunny clime, but Chinese negotiators went to Mexico ready to compromise.

Miliband said people around the world would be rightly furious if negotiators failed to get a deal.

American negotiators were ready to withhold the tariffs if China made concessions, but to no avail.

But schisms began to grow between the negotiators and the more militaristic part of the FBI, which wanted to speed things up.

With considerable hesitation, the U. S. negotiators sweetened the deal, offering guaranteed minimum orders and a higher price.

Negotiators failed to resolve the bitter dispute between the European community and the United states over cutting subsidies to farmers.

He did not write the Treaty alone but in collaboration with three astute and determined negotiators.

African Union negotiators are struggling to hammer out a peace agreement between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels. A.

The announcement came a week ahead of Iran's next round of talks with international negotiators about its nuclear programme.

"There is no break down and as everybody has said, I will talk to all of the negotiators and reconvene them, " he said.

UN negotiators are still trying to secure the release of the he stages.

Time is short and negotiators are currently trying to shrink the text of the agreement, not add to it.

Some of the debacles of our diplomatic history have been perpetrated by Presidents who fancied themselves negotiators.

The Guardian has learned that Africa's intervention was not a spur of the moment decision by negotiators.

He says negotiators from the Greek and Turkish Cypriot sides have worked steadily to move ahead since the last meeting in January.

Negotiators sometimes use ultimatums to force an end to discussion or to resolve an issue on their terms.

If it is an important negotiation, the negotiating team will be comprised of negotiators responsible for the above mentioned areas.

Chinese steel makers, the chief negotiators, have continued to press for deeper discounts.

Although negotiators are optimistic, the details are complex enough that they may be hard-pressed to get a deal at all.

Early negotiations led to a few tourists being freed, but negotiators then lost control of events.

The first commitment period expires at the end of this year, and negotiators will work on an extension at the climate conference in Doha.

A secret session in early May of some of the main negotiators in Luxembourg leaked out amid official denials that it was even happening.

The negotiators were so close to him, and he had his weapon hanging down by his side.

negotiators have continued their discussion over the drafting of a joint document following a working-level consultation.

EU negotiators persuaded themselves that they were able to control the fallout from a default.

In response, Mr Obama dispatched negotiators to Tegucigalpa, Honduras's capital, to browbeat the feuding leaders into a deal.

I would like to share with you some information about the working meeting between Chinese and Russian energy negotiators.

He submitted the draft to negotiators Wednesday, at the end of two-and-a-half days of talks in Vienna.

But once all the peripheral issues had been tidied up and the negotiators were left to share out raw power, the talks stalled yet again.

It was a day of intense diplomatic activity, as Palestinian negotiators met with top Egyptian and Arab League officials.

Last, be negotiators, they enter into negotiations as representative of the company.

As negotiators everywhere know, the first side to disclose all that it is willing to sacrifice (or pay) loses considerable bargaining power.

They said negotiators made progress, but the two countries' leaders decided to give the teams more time to talk.

Without the full participation of the United States and China, most negotiators believe that any agreement is doomed to fail.

This year in Doha, climate experts hope negotiators can come up with a more equitable formula for curbing carbon emissions.

eg. Negotiators are due to meet later today to work out a compromise.

Negotiators at the U. N. climate conference in South Africa have approved a package of agreements to combat global climate change.

Congressional and White House negotiators have to settle on sector-by-sector reductions.

But as U. S. and Chinese negotiators move from words to work, they're going to be pulling in different directions.

As a result of this deception, angry negotiators achieved lesser outcomes than happy negotiators.

In any event, Hamas is still isolated from the main diplomatic game, as Fatah's more emollient negotiators strive to make headway.

Seoul-based analyst for the International Crisis Group, Daniel Pinkston, says, years of work lie ahead for negotiators.

After much discussion the negotiators hammered out a compromise settlement.

We recognized that on some issues the only thing negotiators can achieve is to gain time with dignity .

The conventions have separate constituencies, administration arrangements, negotiators and guiding scientific bodies.

Rather than haggle through the night, as trade negotiators are wont to do, the ministers took it easy and went home early.

At a minimum, the negotiators are hoping to achieve an agreement in principle , with details to be worked out later.

Negotiators are looking for a peaceful settlement to the land dispute.

U. S. negotiators are free to agree to an international accord on behalf of the White House.

Good negotiators try to create a harmonious atmosphere at the start of a negotiation.

No one is expecting Beijing's negotiators to undergo a Damascene conversion during the late nights of cajoling and compromise in Copenhagen.

Negotiators cut more than most Democratic Party lawmakers wanted, but less than most Republicans wanted.

Two traits in particular that cause cross-cultural misunderstanding are directness and impatience on the part of American negotiators .

The court at Middle East peace negotiators has called on Israel to stop all settlement activities.

Tension was palpable among more than 50 senior Lehman managers present to help channel information to negotiators in New York.

Finally, our participants were not professional negotiators, they were clerical and supervisory workers without special training.

The best negotiators are persuasive, articulate people, who select a few key arguments and repeat them.

Geely's negotiators returned to China over the weekend from Europe, where they held talks with Ford representatives.

But French negotiators are known to have been angered and dismayed by the African move.

He helped bring about apartheid's peaceful end as one of the African National Congress's main negotiators.

With a multitude of multilingual virtuosos of negotiators and lawyers, will we falter in global bargaining games?

Despite intensive talks between the EU and US negotiators in recent weeks, officials say that gaps remain.

When neither of the negotiators had lived abroad, none was able to reach a deal.

Bassey also demanded that negotiators agree to a new legally-binding mandate to cut carbon dioxide emissions, blamed for global warming.

As ministers gathered, deputy negotiators were already pointing the finger at China as the main obstacle to the deal.

Negotiators from China, Russia, the United States, Japan and South Korea are still waiting for the document.

Negotiators tried to accommodate those concerns, adding in the insurance proposal, as a way to bring a more free-market patina to the bill.

Moreover, to make the deadline, negotiators will almost certainly have to settle for a deal that falls far short of the 2 percent figure.

In a commercial negotiation the negotiators must ensure the fundamental benefit of their company from being injured.

In addition, the Practice has proved that: the negotiators within the care model and a unique feature.

Producing mandates for negotiators is one thing. Swallowing the results is quite another.

Fisher and the union negotiators were getting an update from outside counsel on where things stand with the legal matters after the meeting.

They listen more, are less status-conscious, conduct crisper meetings, are much more effective negotiators and display greater flexibility.

The negotiators have been instructed to dig in their heels on the last two major issues.

International negotiators must Nave expertise in the target country as well as in the global business environment.

I will just let the negotiators work that out with them privately.

Business negotiations negotiators express their positions through language and ideas to coordinate their objectives and interests table.

Certainly, the document produced by negotiators was not even close to what it should be.

"Never again" was the aim of the negotiators in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.

Negotiators, who will return on Thursday to review their progress to date, are under increased pressure for a deal.

As a tactical maneuver, financial negotiators can browbeat the opposition much in the same way that technical negotiators can.

EU and Chinese negotiators are due to begin talks next month on a broad new bilateral agreement, including economic issues.

According to a new study in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, skilled negotiators are using extra brainpower to do so.

Japan did not take part in talks in Beijing last week at which North Korea told Chinese and US negotiators it would return to talks.

As the debt negotiators square off in Congress, much attention will focus on the size of the 10-year budget deal they come up with.

Negotiators at the meeting Saturday will seek a response to this proposal.

By talking cross cultural negotiation training, negotiators and sales personnel give themselves an advantage over competitors.

Russian trade negotiators fear that the Americans will raise new concerns after they think they have settled all the outstanding issues.

With reason, American negotiators are loath to agree to a binding commitment without Senate approval.

For the first week, the negotiators will work frantically on forging a compromise between the warring parties.

The US negotiators decided to make another try at reaching a settlement.

Mr. Jalili and negotiators from the six powers agreed that there was a long way to go.

Earlier this month, world trade negotiators agreed to continue to look for ways to cut drug prices for developing nations.

Negotiators from both nations have been working feverishly on a replacement treaty.

In another departure from past years, China has allowed its senior negotiators to give interviews with foreign and Chinese journalists.

That's because most negotiators wrongly assume that they understand the other side's motivations and, therefore, don't explore them further.

Wooden stands had been thrown up at both places from which the assembled journalists could observe the negotiators pacing during breaks.

The female negotiators may have achieved a better result in the main negotiation, but it came at the expense of other side benefits.

The preferred firm's negotiators often have some latitude to alter the terms of a deal, but refer big decisions to Beijing.

Pentagon Press Secretary G. M. says negotiators have reached a draft accord, which senior officials in both countries are now evaluating .

Negotiators must interpret body language as well.

Secretary Rice has made numerous trips to the Middle East, but negotiators have made little public progress.

Graduates may work as human resource managers, team leaders, labor negotiators, or others who seek to improve the work environment.

Even now, after months of talks, negotiators are still wrangling over a raft of competing proposals.

Negotiators hope to agree on the basics of that pact when they meet in Copenhagen from December 7.

To make headway this time around, Tibetan and Chinese negotiators must work amid the charged political environment.

Negotiators in South Africa are faced with two amendments, one written by the ministry of justice and one by Mr. Tsvangirai's MDC.

Negotiators must decide what the important issues are and whether the opposition's supposed non-negotiable topics are among them.

The vote for the security deal followed months of tough talks between US and Iraqi negotiators that at times teetered on collapse.

This insight is as relevant to negotiators as it is to graduate students.

Indeed, Michael Punke, US ambassador to the WTO, complains that Chinese negotiators are not even engaging seriously in talks.

Though payments are never officially confirmed, negotiators speak of millions of dollars changing hands to free captives.

Like any conflict, this one has its desperate refugees and its frustrated negotiators.

Senior American envoys met with North Korean negotiators in Geneva in October to discuss a possible resumption of disarmament talks.

But however Copenhagen negotiators structure plans to cut emissions, there's still the issue of enforcement, Schneider says.

Negotiators from six nations are preparing to meet in Beijing for talks on eliminating North Korea's nuclear programs.

Negotiators are looking for a peaceful settlement to the dispute.

Negotiators seek is in the interests of both sides on the basis of achieving a win-win situation.

Rio and China have both appointed new chief negotiators for the current round of talks due to end in April.

Negotiators in Northern Ireland reached a landmark settlement that called for Protestants and Catholics to share power.

Meanwhile, the alarmed Arab League, which dispatched negotiators to Lebanon this week, lacks credibility.

Dress in instrument, requirement accord with oneself to shape the negotiators the identity of the image.

Negotiators are putting "maximum effort" toward resolving objections to the pact before Obama arrives in Seoul.

A critical first step is for negotiators to move away from setting emissions reductions targets.

To date, the bondholders have been tough negotiators, complaining that they are being unfairly treated.

Negotiators soon concluded a treaty of peace and commerce and sealed it with a lotus flower on one side and an eagle and stars on the other.

Our negotiators think they're asking questions about tariffs, and the Chinese respond indignantly that kissing would be inappropriate.

THE negotiators can pat themselves on the back as many times as they like, but that doesn't make bilateral trade deals good economic policy.

Just days after the health vote, Mr. Obama completed a landmark arms control accord with Russia that had eluded negotiators for months.

Their comments on tone, body language, and cultural nuance will provide essential information to negotiators.

U. S. and Iraqi negotiators reached the draft agreement last month after seven months of negotiations.

A numerical example shows that the model can aid negotiators to negotiate and reach a satisfactory agreement.

One problem may well have been an absence of sustained government pressure on the negotiators.

China's Foreign Ministry says negotiators from six nations will meet Thursday to discuss North Korea's nuclear weapons programs.

The debt-ceiling negotiators are looking at "targets and triggers" for taxes and spending.

Being nice to your boss won't get you a pay rise, according to a new study showing that only aggressive negotiators get what they want.

The differences between the two negotiators have slimmed down.

South Korea, which sees itself as a bridge between Asia and the West, played an important role, negotiators say.

negotiators agreed to all the articles of the settlement.

Negotiators now have until December to narrow the range further and define counting rules and verification measures.

China, together with other WTO members, has done a lot of work to spur substantial progress to reach early agreement among the negotiators.

That strategy often infuriates U. S. and European negotiators who generally press for new initiatives in trade and finance.

But many analysts say they are not sure U. S. negotiators can deliver on a trade deal in the final months of the Bush administration.

On Tuesday, negotiators plan to discuss the conduct of the election itself and the role of the Electoral Commission.

Bush persuades Congress to renew his negotiators' mandate, the talks have little prospect of concluding for some years.

Therefore, the negotiators dress should be beautiful, generous, clean and tidy.

The strike ended early Wednesday after negotiators reached the agreement.

Trade negotiators haggle over the latter, but exporters care more about the duties they actually pay.

Senior negotiators at a U. N. conference in Barcelona say a legally binding environment treaty will be delayed.

TG plan is the key job for negotiators which need strong commercial sense and professional merchandise knowledge.

Inspired by a similar action in Kenya, she has proposed a sex strike on the part of the negotiators' spouses.

In the absence of clear political leadership, negotiators have an incentive to be risk averse.

US negotiators were startled by Mr Singh' s decision to outline India's negotiating position in the Indian parliament on Monday.

Negotiators at the Bali conference will begin work on a climate change treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

Republican negotiators now say they want $2. 5 trillion in cuts over the coming decade to raise the debt ceiling by a like amount.

The Turkish-Brazilian plan, when it emerged, seemed softer on Iran than any put forward by Western negotiators.

The negotiators were in broad agreement on the main issues.

U. S. negotiators described talks this week in Geneva with North Korean representatives as 'positive. '

Israel's present negotiators stress that Mr Netanyahu has not endorsed this "100% principle" .

Places like Austria and Finland give their parliaments more say without tying negotiators' hands, he notes.

Builders are most likely to opt for other builders and least likely to settle with negotiators.

Rio has adopted a "take it or leave it" approach to the iron ore price talks, which has infuriated Chinese negotiators.

American negotiators have promised to revisit these two areas in further talks and insist that they have also made concessions.

The negotiators have achieved made a dramatic breakthrough in the arms control talks.

Climate change negotiators are frequently not familiar with agriculture.

The negotiators in Cancun need not abandon the quest for a global treaty.

After dinner, four key negotiators resumed their talks, which continued well into the night.

After dinner, the four key negotiators resumed their talks, which continued well into the night.

It's vital that the voice of agriculture be heard in Cancun and subsequent meetings of negotiators so that it gets its fair share.

Negotiators were told to set new goals by July, when Mr. Obama will visit Moscow.

US negotiators in Geneva say they hope to get an agreement from North Korea to declare all its nuclear facilities and to dismantle them.

Sadly, given UN negotiators' record of seizing opportunities, that may not matter much anyway.

Although negotiators will meet again in July, few expect any breakthrough ahead of Mr Singh's visit to Beijing this year.

Q: It is learned that the DPRK and the ROK top nuclear negotiators will meet in Beijing next week. Please confirm and give us more details.

At this stage negotiators stressed they remained far apart and it was still far from clear a deal could be done.

George Bush's trade negotiators should put a more generous offer on the table.

His negotiators can walk out or cheat on future agreements, while his military can carry out provocations.

Those intuitive abilities make them good at such jobs as personnel managers or negotiators, he writes.

Negotiators are discussing a possible swap involving Taliban prisoners and the South Koreans.

UK negotiators in the EU, coming from the Punch-and-Judy politics of London, cannot adapt to slow consensus-building.

the agreement was mutually satisfactory; the goals of the negotiators were not reciprocally exclusive.

One such shift may have occurred last week, when EU and IMF negotiators imposed a new tranche of austerity.

this makes trade negotiators' traditional goal of tariff-killing less relevant.

The negotiators hunted for a solution to the problem.

After dinner, the four key negotiators resumed their talks, which continued well into night.

Chinese negotiators have been saying much the same thing in private.

Aggressive negotiators run roughshod over opponents with little regard for their counterparts' positions.

As the negotiators were departing, the negotiators were shot at.

Financial resources can be pooled along with the best negotiators in order to bargain from a position of strength.

Inform the negotiators of your low sales items.

Next week negotiators are only set to ink a minor, non-controversial pact on medical cooperation.

On September 10, 57 groups representing business, labor, academia groups and the public made individual presentations to negotiators.

But it is a difficult area for European and American negotiators to make commitments.

To fill the gap, the authors of a new papergathered data from pirate negotiators.

FBI negotiators are working to free an American cargo ship captain being held by Somali pirates.

They will be negotiators-in-waiting alongside the official US delegation, now in the sunset of the Bush presidency.

This means that Air Force negotiators are pushing aggressively for what "we believe is the appropriate cost" for the jets, Van Buren said.

The negotiators came to the conference table armed to the teeth with statistics on cash-flow analyses.

Germans are hard bargainers. The lowest price and prompt delivery dates matter a lot to German negotiators.

Probably the top issue facing the negotiators will be the conflict over the Chinese yuan.

Chief negotiators must make similar decisions when assembling a team.

The cut is in line with negotiators' initial targets.

Officials said negotiators will try again to resolve that dispute two months from now.

The key issue immediately before the negotiators is Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.

Negotiators have already squared away a lot of the agreements that will be signed at the Earth Summit.

Negotiators in Copenhagen will have to agree on how.

There are reports the negotiators agreed to allow Iraqi prosecution only for major crimes allegedly committed off duty.

Side issues will bombard the negotiators, sometimes as part of the opposing strategy, and it will be difficult to achieve focus.

Negotiators who are quick to label the other party as "irrational" do so at greater potential cost to themselves.

And this "EU-3" group of negotiators did finally set a condition that Iran must suspend its nuclear quest before talks resume.

The negotiators seemed punch-drunk after another all-night session.

Negotiators are still working to secure the hostages' release.

Negotiators say India and Brazil have not been as obstructive as feared, while the US has been more constructive than predicted.

In Durban negotiators agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 climate change treaty that expires this year.

Probably the top issue facing the negotiators will be conflict over the Chinese Yuan.

On December 7, negotiators from some 190 nations will convene in Copenhagen to build the framework for a new climate treaty.

"This is still uncharted territory for the negotiators, " said McElwee, the lawyer.

Negotiators as members of society are led easily into attitudes of cultural bias.

He is from Copenhagen, where negotiators are currently struggling to agree on any such system.

APHD export negotiators are assigned specific commodities.

Negotiators are still arguing over whom to appoint as prime minister.

The response from South Korean atomic negotiators was muted.

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Are the negotiators empowered to make the decisions?

He is also working to improve communications between Congress and Chinese trade negotiators.

There are two wedding negotiators from each side (mej knob) who act as the messengers of the wedding.

In the future, Taiwanese and Chinese negotiators will meet once every six months to finalize agreements, Mr. Chiang said.

U. S. and European negotiators said they'd need to meet with Mr. Xie in private to find out what exactly he meant.

Negotiators reached agreement at the eleventh hour, just in time to avoid a strike.

When the short time remaining, the negotiators often use intuition.