They are the first substantive negotiations since the outbreak of the civil war a decade ago.

He said there had been no substantive negotiations on Bunch and did not expect any this week.

None of that will make the substantive negotiations easy when they begin.

It cannot find him, either, let alone engage him in substantive political negotiation.

The two sides are expected to hold their first substantive negotiations in more than a month on Thursday.

Before last weekend, there had been no substantive negotiations since Oct. 13.

The substantive negotiation was within our Government, and it got nowhere.

The opening of substantive negotiations will be the next stage.

It took the screening process forward into a phase of substantive negotiations.

If his mediation is to succeed, substantive negotiations will have to start quickly and be concluded well in advance of next year's election.