That would result in some low-level talk indeed.
It has reopened low-level talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader.
The Bush administration disagrees that an agreement was near, but since Mr. Bush came to office, there have been only low-level talks with North Korea.
The two-year-old group says it has held low-level talks with the S.E.C., though so far the discussions have been mostly exploratory.
Critics of any discussions might respond that the Iranians might say yes, but to only low-level talks in Switzerland, not in Washington and Tehran.
Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, the former United States ambassador to the United Nations who talked with North Korean representatives last week, said he expected low-level talks to begin between the United States and North Korea at the United Nations.
An official at the ministry, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the South would use the low-level talks to gauge the North's willingness to meet its conditions for talks between the defense ministers.
There have been reports in The New York Times and elsewhere that Facebook is now valued at $50 billion, and The Wall Street Journal reported that Twitter had been in low-level talks with both Google and Facebook, with some estimates putting the value of the company at $10 billion.
Low-level talks that have gone nowhere?
Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that it was willing to begin low-level talks with the Palestinian Authority.
As the high-stakes negotiations with Iran rose to the top of President Obama's nuclear arms control agenda, discussions with China about its nuclear arsenal languished in low-level talks that went nowhere.
