But what we need now is meaningful negotiation to prevent further confrontation over the autumn.

This is part of an essential process in creating the right climate for meaningful negotiation.

This included its call for the government to engage in meaningful negotiations with the unions.

He told the players that meaningful negotiations cannot be expected to begin until September, "if then."

"The fact that it's now January and we haven't had a meaningful negotiation is also raising concerns."

We haven't had a chance for meaningful negotiations, after only three sessions.

"You actually want us to have 'meaningful negotiations' with the people who destroyed our world," he said.

As a friend of Israel, we will continue to urge a return to meaningful negotiations on this basis.

I look forward to further details of this plan and hope that it can form the basis for meaningful negotiations.

Our prime concern at the moment, therefore, is how to manage to start meaningful negotiations.