The aim of the second design step is to generate new alternatives that could get a wider agreement than the reasonable alternatives identified so far; this is ascertained in the chapter through a second step of negotiations.
"The NLD's big victory is best seen as the first step of a negotiation that is going to play out in the coming weeks and months between the elected power of the NLD, and entrenched, constitutionally guaranteed military power," said Phil Robertson, deputy director of the Asia division of New York-based Human Rights Watch.
The launch of the fund is the fruit of nearly a year of negotiations with local Israeli players, and is potentially the first step of a multi-pronged approach to Kuang-Chi's involvement in the technology scene.
In the first step of the breakup, Luxembourg's finance minister, Luc Frieden, said Thursday in a statement that he had begun negotiations to sell Dexia's local unit.
The first step -- negotiations on a treaty to continue the work of the recently expired Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) -- may not have met the December deadline, but the treaty's conclusion is seen as imminent.
Nevertheless, it is the first step in negotiations which could potentially lead to an eventual settlement of the 65-year conflict.
Trump will instead announce a comprehensive strategy to deal with all of Washington's issues with Tehran — reversing the Obama Administration's approach to eliminate the nuclear threat as the first step in negotiations on all flash points.
Such an agreement would be the first step in negotiations to reach a court-enforced consent decree.
But on Tuesday, as a potential first step back toward negotiations, Mr. Powell and Mr. Peres will "discuss implementation of the Mitchell committee recommendations and our ongoing efforts to encourage the two sides to reduce the violence," a State Department spokesman, Philip Reeker, said today.
