"The important issues — constitutional changes and reconciliation — are already on the table.
The initiative called for a full change of cabinet, a prime minister acceptable to all, changing the public prosecutor, agreement on constitutional amendments, and a reconciliation commission.
The main instruments are a constitutional reform and a "reconciliation" proposal that would allow Thaksin to return from exile without serving a pending prison sentence for corruption.
Despite Mr. Abhisit's agreement to negotiate, talks will produce little unless his coalition agrees to enact constitutional reforms to promote reconciliation and lay out an expeditious timetable for new elections.
"There are more serious issues, such as the security portfolio, reconciliation, militias, constitutional amendments, a ministerial reshuffle and defining terrorism, resistance and who is the enemy out there on the streets," said Omar Abdul Sattar, a lawmaker.
As recently as Tuesday the president, prime minister and top military officer had agreed on what Mr. Haddad called "an excellent path for Egypt out of its current impasse," he wrote, including "a full change of cabinet, a prime minister acceptable to all, changing the public prosecutor, agreement on constitutional amendments, and a reconciliation commission".
In Zimbabwe, the overall development of the national aid coordination mechanisms has not progressed in more than three years and the national reconciliation commission and constitutional reform processes have also been fraught with problems and delays.
Moreover, George Bush's Senate allies once denounced the filibuster as the "formula for tyranny by the minority" and downplayed reconciliation as simply the "constitutional option".
Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.
She has explored every avenue to get her brother back, including royal pardons, constitutional amendments and five other kinds of reconciliation bill.
Howard, by then a cautious convert to the importance of symbolism to advance reconciliation, proposed a policy of constitutional recognition at the 2007 election but by then he'd run out of time in the Lodge.
