Sentences with phrase «lead negotiators say»

But lead negotiators say they're proud of what the General Assembly has accomplished, including giving teachers what they consider to be a much - needed pay raise.

Not exact matches

Trump's decision to impose duties on up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, for example, comes at a time when Washington needs Beijing's help to rein in a nuclear - armed Pyongyang, said Wendy Sherman, a former under secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreement.

Stewart - Cousins said that means Republicans will control the chamber throughout the budget process and be the lead negotiators for the Senate with Cuomo.

«Compromise by definition means neither side gets everything that they wanted to get,» Cuomo said at a news conference at his Manhattan offices, where the pact was signed by MTA chairman Thomas Prendergast and lead LIRR union negotiator Anthony Simon.

Senator Stewart - Cousins says that means Republicans will control the chamber throughout the budget process and be the lead negotiators for the Senate with Governor Cuomo.

But despite the optimism engendered by her démarche, Britain's lead negotiator, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, warned that the talks may still founder: «It's a race against the clock,» he said.

«It's not the 100 % that I hoped for,» says Gerard Meijer, the president of Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the lead negotiator on the Dutch side.

«It's important for our researchers that there is no gap» between the current program and the next, says Teresa Riera Madurell, a former academic from Spain and one of the lead negotiators for the European Parliament.

This is the core political thing,» Claudia Salerno, lead negotiator for Venezuela, the country that led the charge against changing the current Kyoto system, said when asked what was at stake.

On Friday, Todd Stern, the lead United States negotiator in climate talks, prodded China sharply in a speech at the University of Michigan Law School, criticizing its negotiators for backtracking from commitments that he said were clear cut under the Copenhagen Accord that emerged from the chaotic talks last December.

Denis Sassou - Nguesso, president of Congo and the lead negotiator for the African Union on climate change, said that domestic pressures on forests have to be countered with other kinds of economic opportunity.

«Without the active participation of the two biggest emitters, namely China and the United States, it's not a global effort,» said Shimada, who was formerly Japan's lead negotiator at the talks.

«The U.S. talks about ambitious targets and we would have liked to see a reduction of at least 45 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 --- we think it is possible,» said Amjad Abdulla, the lead negotiator from the island nation Maldives.

The protests didn't prove to be too much of a distraction, however, as lead Chinese climate negotiator Su Wei said during a press briefing on Saturday (Day 6) that he wasn't aware of them and was rather ambivalent about their role in the negotiation process.

The advance made by COP23 negotiators «has enabled us to open up a new, important channel of information and will enable us to start building much more informed relationships between agriculture, innovation and the dynamic links with climate change,» said Sadler, whose World Bank colleagues led finance discussions at the Global Landscape Forum.

This deal shows the importance and maturity of China's retail industry, where a lot of opportunities are still up for grabs by those who combine good knowledge of Chinese consumers» expectations and technological excellence», said Jean - Philippe Engel, lead negotiator for Leaf.