But by the evening, after having successfully brokered discussions between the Greeks, the Germans and the European Commission, he was able to describe the outcome as "very positive".
Shortly after he brokered discussions with Cleveland, the baseball trading card company Topps announced it was removing the image from its subsequent release of Cleveland cards.
According to diplomats, his comments reflected in part sensitivities over language that need to be navigated by Brahimi, 80, who has brokered discussions on transitional governments in Afghanistan and Iraq, among other places.
Policy director Peter Peacock said: "To get this far has required a great deal of determination by the community, and latterly all parties have been able to make progress through a process of brokered discussions.
Eve brokered discussions between Rockefeller and State Senator Basil Paterson, who represented the disgruntled Harlem community.
And who was one of the most influential owners in brokering meaningful discussion?
Mr. Omari worked together with the Afghan government in 2002, although his efforts to broker discussions eventually led to his being arrested and allegedly tortured.
Her office tried unsuccessfully to broker discussions with the Occupy protesters, for whom a negotiating table proved to be no more necessary than the other comforts with which they had dispensed.
The GSE opposed Djibouti's ongoing efforts to broker discussions between Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) (ref B), Youssouf said, as the GSE sought to keep Ethiopia preoccupied in Somalia, and thus to fracture the Ethiopian military into 3-4 fronts.
Foreign Minister Youssouf reports that Isaias opposes Djiboutian efforts to broker discussions between Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS), and that Isaias also suspects that routine U.S. military exercises in Djibouti are aimed at gathering intelligence for Ethiopia.
Peter J. Hurtgen, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, who is brokering the discussions, has asked both sides not to discuss the talks.
