There, they reviewed the progress of a secret, sensitive negotiation with India, known to its participants as "the back channel".
Recognizing that President Carter is involved in a highly sensitive negotiation process aimed at security freedom of the hostages, Reagan has tried to walk a thin line between pronouncements that could endanger the lives of the hostages and his deeply felt criticism of Carter's foreign policies.
This is just another indication of the carelessness with which they handle what is going to be a very, very sensitive negotiation.
That is an inherent part of a sensitive, contentious negotiation like this but you should be in no doubt that we are making good progress.
All of this suggests that a wild-card president ― the last thing you want in the sensitive negotiation ― could have created serious problems, and not only for U.S. negotiators, who will now have to iron out the details with North Korea.
After Washington, there followed six years as head of the Bank of France, a period of sensitive negotiations, most crucially between Paris and Bonn, on the creation of the euro.
Simon Coveney, Ireland's foreign secretary and deputy prime minister, told reporters in Dublin that the EU understood that May must get a deal that was "sellable" in Westminster and that it would be unhelpful to publish a backstop while sensitive negotiations were ongoing.
But the growing Iranian presence on the ground has complicated the mission, with Washington refusing to work directly with a country it views as a regional menace, yet is currently embroiled with Iran in sensitive negotiations over a nuclear deal.
But the growing Iranian presence on the ground has complicated the mission, with Washington refusing to work directly with a country it views as a regional menace, even though it is currently embroiled with Iran in sensitive negotiations over a nuclear deal.
When I interviewed him recently for the London-based Alhiwar Arabic satellite TV channel (broadcast this week) I found him in the middle of extremely sensitive negotiations with a multitude of regional and international players over the formation of a national unity government that would, once agreed, bring an end to the sanctions imposed on the Palestinians by the "international community".
