71.   Since late last week, the two sides have been engaged in intensive informal talks to resolve the Hebron dispute under the mediation of US Mideast envoy Dennis Ross.

72.   Tarnoff had intensive top-level talks with South Korean officials on lobbying the UN Security Council to slap the North with sanctions at an early date.

73.   The delegation gave no indication on whether the intensive talks with the Chinese officials had ended their dispute on intellectual property rights infringements.

74.   The German government however did not share this point of view, but intensive talks between the two countries could not settle the divergence.

75.   The goal was to develop basic principles for further intensive talks which could eventually lead to a peace accord, according to Washington.