The peace agreement is the result of political talks at the negotiation table.

He was certainly in no position to give lessons on returning to the negotiating table, when it was Israel that had ended negotiations.

Europe was not at the final negotiating table.

More women's voices at the table?

So we're pulling out all the stops.

We're using whatever leverage we have to bring them to the table.

The CD has not yet been able to carry out significant substantive work this year, and it is difficult to envision an overall outcome whereby the CD remains deadlocked on all work on the table, yet proceeds to decide to add chairs around it.

All parties concerned must exercise restraint, abjure violence and return to the negotiating table.

I appeal to Iran to refrain from taking unilateral measures and to return to the negotiating table.

We call for the parties to sit at the negotiating table and discuss all the relevant issues.

We believe that an increased role for women on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides of the negotiating table will positively reshape the outcome of peace negotiations.

South Africa believes that the international community should have been allowed to reach this conclusion collectively at the negotiating table rather than it being used as a precondition for negotiations.

It is already clear that this divide could be an obstacle at the negotiating table.

We need to understand that we cannot actually have negotiations of ending of wars or peace without fully including women at the negotiating table.

All the great progress in this country with relation to our adversaries has come by going into the room.

Even now, the celebrated Betty Bigombe has not used a magic wand to bring Kony to the negotiating table.

Standstill is regress and regress produces a vicious circle meagre results at the negotiating table, no implementation, more insecurity, less willingness to talk, no results and so on.

It was incumbent upon the international community to exert efforts to revive the peace process and to compel Israel to return to the negotiating table.

That major project, however, has already gone beyond the imagination of the visionaries and the negotiating tables of the diplomats.

But come to find out, a few game days later and there are turns where we take negotiation from a team actually there's a negotiation period with all teams, and each team takes a turn, then we go back in negotiation, around and around, so each turn around is one game day.

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has extended 18 written invitations, and its representatives are still waiting for the negotiating team of the leaders of the Albanian national minority to show up at the negotiating table.

Sir, I'd like to talk to you about that desk.

Under its aegis Moroccans and Saharans had laid down their arms and come to the negotiating table.

We have seen similar patterns in the past, when the parties increased the tempo of their offensive operations on the eve of a new round of political negotiations with a view to gaining a tactical advantage that can be leveraged at the negotiating table.

There, women have been frozen out of the peace process and given no room at the peace table.

Conflict parties also need to be prepared to return to the negotiation table if the agreement implementation stalls.

An agreement at the negotiation table marks the beginning of a long and arduous process of peacebuilding within society itself.

It is this conviction that prompted Ethiopia to present a comprehensive peace proposal, which is still on the table.

The other thing is that power is incredibly seductive, and you must have two real qualities, I think, when you come to the table, when you're dealing with power, talking about power, because of its seductive capacity.

Meeting in Skopje, the ministers agreed on a package of measures to give women a voice at the negotiation table.

What has changed, however, is the context. And changes in context can be critical indeed, what happens away from the negotiating table almost always determines the outcome of face to face talks.

On 6 October, the Government announced that, unless the armed group agreed to enter into negotiations before 31 October, it would take adequate measures to bring it to the negotiating table, willingly or by force.

A round of negotiations of bilateral investments treaties for francophone countries involving 13 countries resulted in the signing of 17 agreements.

However, as is often the case when peace is negotiated while fighting continues, each of the parties sought to strengthen their positions at the negotiating table by making military progress in the field.

Mr. Putin also said this week that it made little sense to continue negotiations amid the Crimea tensions, forcing the other parties to persuade him to come back to the table and putting himself at the center of the process.

The ideal outcome is for the negotiators to leave the bargaining table reasonably satisfied that all have won something and that no one has lost or capitulated.

The understandings previously reached at Sharm el Sheikh were an encouraging beginning for a return to the negotiating table and for calming conditions on the ground.

If Russia and Iran threaten to withdraw support, Assad will have no option other than to come to the table. However, the biggest obstacle to a ceasefire is the same one that presented itself during negotiations over Syria s chemical weapons any deal will require accepting Assad as a partner in the negotiations.

Despite attempts by various parties, and the occasional truce, efforts to bring all the warring factions to the negotiation table have yet to succeed.

A strategy that could work would be to stress how the outcome is beneficial to everyone involved. But the outcome you propose might not be fair, or realistic, or you might be consciously lying.

Each can augment the other.

To deal with you?

But the bottom line is that there is a way, when there are more women at the table, that there's an attempt to develop some understanding.

Old hands know that global trade deals often rise out of the ashes of failed talks. Unfortunately, such an outcome seems improbable now, especially since the US is unlikely to rejoin the talks anytime soon.

The doctors who are not fighting, the artists, the students, the men who refuse to pick up the guns, they are, too, excluded from the negotiating tables.