We will bargain!

He makes deals.

We haven't talked terms yet.

He can't make any deals with the police.

You tell them nothing, you hear?

And the issue which quite clearly is ripe for negotiation is an FMCT.

Women are often unable to negotiate the terms of sexual relationships.

The latter has initiated negotiations on employment conditions.

(e) Utilize, where appropriate, as a resource the Model Treaty on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters when negotiating such treaties

However, like any other multilateral negotiation, the negotiations on an FMCT should start without preconditions neither with regard to what shall be negotiated nor with regard to the expected or desired outcome.

By any standards, an FMCT is ripe for negotiation.

Finland calls for the immediate commencement of negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut off Treaty (FMCT), without preconditions.

(c) Trading shipping costs, sales price negotiation, terms of sales (Somalia)

The scope and verification of this treaty would be among the matters to be addressed in the negotiations, without preconditions.

While calls have come from all concerned for the resumption of negotiations, it appears that the conditions surrounding such a resumption necessitate further clarifications.

To fail to follow through on this fact and to start negotiations to this end would be a dereliction of duty.

Adhering to both sides of the central bargain was vital for the survival of the Treaty.

Of the main issues, FMCT is, in our view, by far the ripest priority for negotiation.

Ms. MTSHALI (South Africa) During 2004 there was a general view in this chamber that the question of a fissile material treaty was ripe for negotiation in the CD.

The first condition proposes that the price , if you will, for negotiations should be the establishment of an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament.

Accepting this sort of linkage would hurt, not help, the prospects of productive negotiations.

5. States must not create obstacles to the conduct of negotiations by insisting on the imposition of irrelevant preconditions for the initiation or continuation of negotiations.

This resulted in negotiations with the Commission on standard clauses governing the essential conditions of such cooperation.

We are open to the possibilities for discussion of issues of concern to us and CD partners, and when an issue is ripe for negotiation, we would welcome negotiation.

Besides those supporting the mandate in the Shannon report, some want the CD to negotiate an FMCT without verification. Some others prefer a non discriminatory, universally applicable FMCT without any preconditions while still taking account of the mandate in the Shannon report. Some members feel the FMCT must be verifiable but argue that the issue of verification can be dealt with in the process of negotiations and should not be a precondition for initiating negotiations.

The Government and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland had announced a cease fire with effect from 1 August 1997 and agreed on the following terms for the start of talks (a) the talks shall be without conditions from both sides (b) the talks shall be at the highest level, that is, at the level of the Prime Minister and (c) the venue of the talks shall be anywhere outside India.

We remain committed to holding negotiations under the umbrella of the United Nations and to working for the creation of those conditions that will render fruitful negotiations feasible.

Thus, transit arrangements can be negotiated on better terms and there are more possibilities for peering.

But after today's match he'll be able to ask anything he likes.

I'd like to talk about a couple of things today.

Now let me turn to a cut off treaty.

As the author of the food for thought paper, Ambassador Sanders, told the CD in his valedictory remarks last week, the food for thought paper may need some amendment, and I think he may have had in mind an explicit without preconditions dimension to the start of FMCT negotiations.

For instance, as landowners, they participated directly in negotiations to determine the terms and conditions for natural resource development.

I now turn to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Think it over. Figure out the best way to present it all to her.

I'll expect you'll want to discuss it.

It was important to send a message to the Conference on Disarmament that negotiations on a fissile material cut off treaty should begin without further delay and to state in the final document of the Conference that an overwhelming majority of States parties supported the early entry into force of the CTBT.

At the end of the reporting period, the Agency was still negotiating the terms of such insurance.

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.

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Moreover, the agreed principles and rules of given negotiations could set clearly the aim of negotiations, the framework for addressing the issues, the order of their consideration and so forth, in other words agreeing on the terms of negotiations without prejudging their outcome.

I want today briefly again to put on record that the United Kingdom is ready now to begin in the CD negotiations on an FMCT, without preconditions.

Participated in treaty negotiations

An extensive and complex discussion on this issue is a prerequisite and should carefully lay the ground for eventual negotiations.

The events which drove the CD to complete the negotiations on the Convention to prohibit chemical weapons and to produce the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty are well known.