Mr. Obama and his aides have argued that unless they give President Hassan Rouhani and his Western-educated chief negotiator, Mohammad Javad Zarif, something to take home and advertise as a victory from the first round of negotiations, there is little chance they will return to negotiate a second, permanent deal.
Speaking at a news conference after spending much of the day with Lloyd Axworthy, her Canadian counterpart, Albright said that newly appointed Canadian and U.S. negotiators will meet March 30 for the first round of negotiations aimed at finding an equitable way of dividing the salmon catch, worth between $400 million and $700 million annually.
The first round of negotiations was set for October 15th and 16th, and the world's press corps (including more than forty Iranian journalists, flown in from Tehran) dutifully followed the negotiating teams to Geneva's Intercontinental Hotel.
Just before the vote was called, Pelosi met in her Capitol Hill office with three leaders of the group in a first round of negotiations but made no headway.
Rankin says it appears that recently resigned Brexit secretary Dominic Raab didn't understand what the UK and the EU agreed to last December at the close of the first round of negotiations.
In either case, if Rahman successfully defends his titles, he will be free to fight the odd man out -- Tyson or Lewis, whoever is left out from the first round of negotiations.
