basis of negotiations

These papers will now form the basis of negotiations moving forward.

"I'm not sure what the basis of negotiations would be," Mike said, shrugging.

It is essential for the Council and the Commission to immediately make available all the documentation which has been the basis of negotiations.

But this year, Mr. Regan's estimates are expected to form the basis of negotiations.

The list, which might form the basis of negotiations with Israeli authorities, included a mixture of broad and narrow appeals.

Sheikh Yassin did not want peace on the basis of negotiations, but does Sharon?

Certainly the Algiers text will do little to strengthen the hand of Israelis who search for a basis of negotiations.

Both Democrats and Republicans pledged to work together this year, with Mr. Clinton's budget plan as the basis of negotiations.

To this plan both Britain and France gave a general assent, and the Andrássy Note was adopted as the basis of negotiations.

Also important, Mr. Shamir achieved this without giving Arab states what they wanted most: Israel's agreement to trade land for peace as the basis of negotiations.

This second draft, commonly known as Baker II, was accepted by the Polisario as a "basis of negotiations" to the surprise of many.

The response will now form the basis of negotiations between the government and the Premier League, Football League and the FA.

Mr. Bentsen and Mr. Rostenkowski have made the packages the basis of negotiations but have indicated a willingness recently to discuss alternatives.

The building of peace is a common endeavor to which Israel, under whatever Government, must contribute by abiding by agreements, respecting the agreed basis of negotiations and not trying to impose conditions.

In announcing the plan, Mr. Levy said the board would "make every effort to maintain that level of per-child funding"; he later added that the number would be the basis of negotiations.

He left behind the Baker II plan, accepted as a suitable basis of negotiations by the Polisario and unanimously endorsed by the Security Council, but rejected by Morocco.

The political document adopted by the national council said that Resolution 242 of 1967 along with Resolution 338 of 1973, which calls for negotiations, should be the basis of negotiations on any peaceful settlement.

John McMichael, as candidate for the UDA-linked Ulster Loyalist Democratic Party, campaigned for the 1982 South Belfast by-election on the basis of negotiations towards independence.

On 3 October, the Russian Minister to Japan, Roman Rosen, presented to the Japanese government the Russian counterproposal as the basis of negotiations, as follows (quoted verbatim):

One may speculate that had these proposals been offered seriously they would undoubtedly have formed at least the basis of negotiations between Germany and Poland and might well have spared the world its second great war in a generation.

In a surprise move, the Polisario accepts the document as a basis of negotiations; Morocco stalls for several months, but eventually rejects the plan, stating that the kingdom will no longer accept independence as one of the ballot options.

In an editorial titled 'A Corridor for Camels', The Times on 16 December denounced the Pact and said there never was "the slightest doubt that British public opinion would recommend them for approval by the League as a fair and reasonable basis of negotiations".

Both sides could have demands - the Arab demand for Israel to withdraw from all Arab land and give the Palestinians a state with eastern Jerusalem as its capital, for instance, or the Israeli refusal to do so - so long as they were the basis of negotiations, not preconditions for talks.