In a contrast to gloomier assessments on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his deputies said the group was making progress on a draft agreement that lays out the terms of a six-month preliminary deal.
"In May, F.D.A. officials told us that they had prepared a draft progress report, but as of June 4, 2008, F.D.A. had not made this report public".
With 100 days to go until the Paris climate summit, the EU's climate chief has warned that progress in thrashing out a draft negotiating text is proceeding too slowly and urgently needs to be stepped up.
QUESTION FROM JCG: Have you ever received negative (or not so helpful) feedback to a draft in progress and if so, what's your technique to re-focus?
The secretary general of the league, Amr Moussa, an Egyptian, was charged with monitoring Iraq's progress toward drafting a constitution and electing a government.
But now, Canongate finds itself accused by Assange himself of "screwing people over to make a buck": he claims that the published version was in fact a draft, a "work in progress" and that he had promised to provide a new version of the book by the end of this year.
Their first reaction is what will go out into the world, and there's no such thing as a draft or work in progress, which is why there are so few genuinely great commentators, those who are not only able to tell us what's going on but do so with some form of wit and art.
Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori of Japan arrived here this afternoon for his first, and likely last, encounter with President Bush, as both Japanese and American officials acknowledged that they had made virtually no progress on drafting a joint statement to reassure world markets that Japan had a firm plan in place to restore economic growth.
He sent Werner Dannhauser, a political scientist who had been a close friend and ideological soul mate of Bloom's, a draft of his novel in progress.
Speaking in Indonesia during her tour of the region, Mrs Clinton said the Asean bloc and China must make "meaningful progress" towards drafting a code of conduct for the disputes.
