Sentence examples for direct talks for from inspiring English sources

Instead, there will be no direct talks for now.

A suspension of enrichment work is key to the diplomatic package and a precondition for America to join in direct talks for the first time.

Morocco and the Polisario Front, which are struggling for control of resource-rich Western Sahara, agreed to hold direct talks for the first time under the terms of a unanimously passed United Nations Security Council resolution.

So, finally, Nick Clegg has stepped back from the path of self-destruction into which David Cameron has been leading him – and opened direct talks for an alternative traffic light coalition with Labour.

On Saturday, representatives from Libya's two, rival parliaments held direct talks for the first time; one source involved in negotiations said the aim was to persuade both sides to give up power and effectively start again.

Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate held direct talks for the first time in weeks on Saturday.

After striving for almost two years to shepherd Israeli and Palestinian leaders into direct talks, only for this effort to collapse over the issue of settlements, Mr Obama is in danger of concluding like many presidents before him that Arab-Israeli diplomacy is a Sisyphean distraction.

Palestinian and Israeli negotiators began direct talks two weeks ago for the first time in three years, with more talks due to begin in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Instead, they have argued for direct talks with Moscow and for setting up a "contact group," a diplomatic committee that would keep all sides informed of developments but wouldn't seek to mediate the crisis.

It also seeks direct talks with Washington for the perceived prestige it would bring the country.

GENEVA — Russia and Georgia began direct talks on Wednesday for the first time since their five-day war in August, but on a tense note as the Russian negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, arrived nearly an hour late.