Sentences with phrase «while diplomatic talks»

While diplomatic talks between the two nations are undoubtedly a progressive step in securing international peace, the President and the Secretary of State had been at loggerheads over how to advance towards such an objective.

Not exact matches

While Rex Ryan tried to stay diplomatic about the performance of the officials and refused to talk about the play during his press conference on Monday, after the game he said he thought the play looked illegal.

For the first time in the history of the fraught diplomatic talks, he said, China has taken a concrete step away from the current Kyoto Protocol rules that demand only a handful of industrialized countries act unilaterally while hundreds of developing countries act on a voluntary basis.

McKitrick used MM0X to sustain the lobbying of the Fraser Group on behalf of the tar sand industry in Ottawa to influence the Canadian government to not merely drop out of but also actively sabotage Kyoto in international talks, while also subsidizing and using its full diplomatic weight to promote tar sands.

They seemed to be saying that they would openly discuss only uncontroversial positions (they gave the diplomatic immunity proposal as one example) while actually blocking a legal amendment proceeding under the Kyoto Protocol just to avoid talking about other, unspecified issues which had been raised.