You might also make a joint commitment upfront to negotiate openly and honestly.
If the United States government truly has no imperial intention, then it should respect international protocol and negotiate openly and fairly with Iran, in a realistic effort to stabilize the Middle East.
Unless the Obama administration allows me to negotiate openly on his behalf and provide officials with an actual account of his activity, he will continue to fade from view, which is, I fear, exactly what the administration wants.
South Africa must decide its own fate, but only by negotiating openly with the authentic representatives of all South Africans, black and white, can Pretoria avoid repetitive cycles of bloodshed and, eventually, the collapse of all white influence.
President Karzai has appealed to the Taliban leadership to return home and negotiate openly, but has not offered guarantees of security.
In a perfect world, real estate closings would occur overnight, sellers would keep every promise made, and both buyers and sellers would negotiate openly and fairly.
Many demonstrators have bristled at the government's repeated efforts to discredit the opposition by casting it as a Russian proxy, and its refusal to either negotiate or openly acknowledge sources of popular discontent.
In Cambodia, however, the effectiveness of contracting non-state actors (NSAs) to deliver and manage services has been hampered by the widespread lack of transparency, the government's failure to negotiate contracts openly, and the tendency of government officials to bypass laws and administrative processes in awarding contracts (38).
However, Paine insists the terms were always openly negotiated with the tenants' solicitors.
You cannot informally rewrite a lease – the terms were always openly negotiated with the tenants' solicitors and approved by them".
