But Palestinian officials have said — at least as an opening position for negotiations — that they regard all of the buffer zone as Palestinian territory, and Mr. Netanyahu has never publicly articulated his readiness for land swaps.
For his part, Mr. Milosevic "doesn't need a war after the elections, but a better position for negotiations with the West," suggested Ranko Krivokapic, a leader of an independence-minded party in Mr. Djukanovic's coalition.
Smith staked out a populist position for negotiations almost immediately, linking well-compensated players with the hourly workers who direct traffic and sell hot dogs on game days as people who would lose out on paychecks if owners locked out players in 2011.
Boxee says it is going to need the funding to be in a better position for negotiations with larger content providers like CBS, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, and the BBC.
But I as prime minister bear overall responsibility for Israel's positions as they were presented in the course of the summit, just as I would have stood behind any comprehensive agreement, difficult as it may be.... Ideas, opinions and even positions that came up in the course of the summit are not valid and are not acceptable as opening positions for negotiations when they resume.
"Putin wants to consolidate his success and set out the positions for negotiations –- guaranteed inclusion of Crimea into Russia and control over eastern Ukraine".
It could be that this is just an opening position for further negotiations".
If only Democrats joined Mr. Cooper and Mr. LaTourette, that budget would not be the final compromise but the Democratic starting position for future negotiations, aides said.
On Monday night the finance minister, Mathias Cormann, challenged Labor to back the savings in the government's omnibus bill, describing it as the "absolute minimum starting position" for budget negotiations.
If anything, having CHIP finally taken care of leaves the Democrats in a stronger position for hard negotiations: they are less vulnerable to extortion, and to the pressure of children, state by state, being shut out of doctors' offices.
