Sentence examples for up for talks from inspiring English sources

(AP) PHILIPPINES: REBELS SHUN TALKS Rebels failed to show up for talks on releasing nearly two dozen Western and Asian hostages kidnapped on Sipadan island, saying they were wary of the heavily armed escort taking the Philippine negotiator to the jungle meeting place.

Led by India, many poor countries denied that they ever signed up for talks on new rules.

The prime minister's boldest step to date has been to sign up for talks to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a regional free-trade agreement.

MOSCOW — The president of the World Chess Federation, an eccentric Russian millionaire who last year tried to negotiate a settlement in Libya's civil war, has again shown up for talks with a faltering dictator.

Lessons from Auntie The BBC's coup ReprintsThus the atmosphere that greeted Richard Haass, the Bush administration's pointman on Northern Ireland, when he turned up for talks on June 11th and 12th, was far from peaceful.

The agency had harbored no suspicions, Mr. Kaskiv said, because Mr. Bonvehi, a bald man with a goatee, had been regularly showing up for talks over two months, once even traveling to the resort town of Yalta on the Black Sea, far from the capital, for a meeting about the investment fund.

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She is glad that Vojislav Kostunica has replaced Mr. Milosevic as Yugoslavia's president, "because Kostunica is up for talking with the whole world, and the media blockade will be broken".

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