I have asked the prime minister and the president to continue these intensive discussions by sending their teams back to Washington next week,"
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"It's our intention and we are committed to this, every party, to continue our intensivediscussions with belief that they are constructive and in good faith, " Kerry added.
Years of intensivediscussions with Moscow to this end got nowhere, even though Russian generals were privately telling their U.S. counterparts that Russia herself was worried by the prospect of missile proliferation around its southern rim.
We have engaged in very intensivediscussions over a long period with the leadership of the TUC, with the individual schemes with the unions and I would just remind you that if you think we are not negotiating, just talk to the TUC about the intensiveness of the negotiations.