The Washington talks will centre on the crucial issue of who will represent the Palestinians.

Since the Washington talks, about 15 additional companies have come forward, meaning that the financial burden would be spread wider.

With no important economic reports released yesterday, the negative Washington talk dominated the session.

Most of Washington talks and writes about it all as if it were some kind of game.

The Washington talks got off to a bit of a rocky start with an aggressive public statement by Shara.

"Karadzic was expecting the Russians to line up behind him, and they didn't," said a diplomat involved in the Washington talks.

A useful result of the Washington talks is that we have been able to formulate a kind of agenda for joint efforts in the future.

To that end, Syria has already agreed to rejoin the Washington talks.

However, as Washington talks dragged on, the demands seemingly grew less.

The Washington talks, he was informed, "now stand ruptured - broken."