21.   The latest talks take place as Washington and Seoul are trying to persuade North Korea to join peace negotiations aimed at officially ending the war.

22.   The negotiations aimed to open up ocean shipping, port use and port services to international competition, slashing prices, but they had had long showed little movement.

23.   The negotiations aim at consolidating peace pacts which ended a four-year civil war in the former Soviet republic.

24.   Those negotiations will aim to lay the financial groundwork for expansion and streamline cumbersome EU decision-making rules that were made for a union of fewer than a dozen members.

25.   Tokyo and Moscow have agreed to continue holding negotiations aimed at concluding such a treaty.

26.   But Nasrat said it was likely Omar had slipped the net while tribal elders seeking to avoid bloodshed held negotiations aimed at securing a peaceful resolution.

27.   The trip comes after Iran sponsored and organised a frenetic round of inter-Afghan peace negotiations aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the long-running civil war.

28.   UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived here on Wednesday in a bid to start peace negotiations aimed at ending a month-long civil war in Yemen.

29.   Japan and the United States have concluded marathon negotiations aimed at opening the Japanese flat glass market, the foreign ministry said Thursday.

30.   Negotiations aimed at resolving the seven-year conflict in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh were Friday at a delicate stage, a Finnish foreign ministry spokesman said.