Sentences with phrase «door negotiations say»

People familiar with closed - door negotiations say a tentative deal was struck over the weekend.

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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman reportedly said in a closed - door meeting that Palestinians should accept peace negotiations or «shut up and stop complaining.»

China values the willingness the United States has shown to address the current trade friction through dialogue and communication, Premier Li Keqiang said Thursday, adding that China's door for negotiation was always open.

Closed - door negotiations over the ethics reform bill have been dragging on for weeks now, despite the fact that Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has said repeatedly that his house has an agreement with the governor.

Unless you're whipping up the public support, getting the public really engaged in this, there's no way that secret negotiations behind closed doors without the public's involvement are going to lead to anything significant,» Horner said.

Senate Democrats, who are a minority in the chamber, denounced their exclusion from the closed - door negotiations, which came after the governor's office said in February that their conference leader, Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins of Westchester, would be included in discussions.

Dick Dadey of Citizens Union says the closed - door negotiations followed by immediate votes were unnecessary for a bill in which most measures aren't effective for 60 days.

ALBANY — Legislative leaders emerged from nearly two hours of closed - door negotiations with Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying they would brief their respective conferences on final details of a state budget, and hope that bills could be finalized and printed Tuesday night.

«As in past years, the budget negotiation process was mostly done behind closed doors, leaving the public in the dark about how taxpayer money will be spent,» DiNapoli said in a statement.

Connecticut Democratic House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz says all sides had to compromise during the two weeks of closed - door negotiations in order to get to the tentative deal.

David Cameron is edging Britain towards the EU exit door after embarking on a negotiation strategy based on «threats, insults and disengagement», Ed Miliband has said.

The Democratic Governor's criticism comes after the state's Republican and Democratic legislative leaders emerged from closed - door budget negotiations on Thursday to say that they hadn't yet gotten to a deal but were close.

He said Paladino should not be removed from the board for disclosing in a newspaper story published in ArtVoice information about teacher contract negotiations from the School Board's Oct. 17 executive session because that closed - door meeting was improperly convened by the board.

Asked for an explanation, a Cuomo aide said the issue was raised in closed - door negotiations with the legislature.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- After closed - door negotiations with Governor Andrew Cuomo Friday, New York's legislative leaders said they will restore some of the school funding that Cuomo proposed cutting from the state budget.

Skelos also was pushing a new, late counterproposal into closed - door budget negotiations that he said would protect upstate communities from what he called unfair treatment in the last round of prison closings.

After a day of closed - door negotiations with legislative leaders, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in an interview with Spectrum News NY1 Monday evening that uncertainty about how a new Republican president and Congress might affect the state could lead to an «extender» of the current budget rather than a new one.

ALBANY — A low - cost proposal to expand the use of breast milk to save premature babies» lives and avoid lifelong disabilities has been dropped from closed - door budget negotiations, two senior legislators said Monday.

«If these rumors are true, it's a back door kind of negotiation that nobody's hearing about,» she said.

Close door negotiations means that civil society is not allowed to come inside the room and hear to what governments have to say.