The first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders will likely not be ideal for reaching consensus on issues such as trade, the North Korean nuclear crisis, and the one-China policy.
She said the draft text showed countries were close to reaching consensus on issues such as cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and the transparency needed for international monitoring of such efforts.
A special session next week will offer a test of whether the governor and lawmakers can reach consensus on issues they have been negotiating for months, from campaign finance reform to pay raises for judges and legislators.
Critics point to the government's inability to reach consensus on issues as diverse as plans for a cultural district in West Kowloon in 2004 and a Goods and Services Tax to diversify its revenue base last year.Mr Tung tried to tackle the problem in 2002 by filling some of the top civil-service posts with political appointees from business, the professions and academia.
They reached consensus on three issues and failed on three others.
"We are pleased to report that the U.S. and China have reached consensus on major issues that we discussed," said a statement released by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
This high inter-lineage divergence raises questions about the taxonomic status of M. cephalus in the NW Pacific, but studies have not reached consensus on this issue.
Within this Delphi study we have had many interesting discussions, and reached consensus on a number of important issues about the assessment of measurement properties.
Mr. Hashemi, whose party is a key member of the Iraqi Consensus Front, the largest Sunni bloc, confirmed that Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish party leaders have reached consensus on the "major issues" surrounding the return of former Baathists to government jobs, although the proposed legislation has still to be sent to Parliament for discussion and approval.
Sure, you can debate the scale of the warming and the precise amount of impact that human activity is having, but an astounding 97% of scientists have reached consensus on the overall issue.
The country "will not be able to keep pace much less lead globally unless it moves to fix the problems it has allowed to fester for too long," argues the Task Force, which includes thirty-one prominent education experts, national security authorities, and corporate leaders who reached consensus on a set of contentious issues.
