Recently he lost a very important negotiation with the Mexican government about the retirement benefits of the social security union workers.

He died suddenly in Paris, where he was conducting important negotiations.

Brown says it was not his role to interfer in important diplomatic negotiations.

"I'm hoping you could tell me who has decided to interrupt our important negotiations by firing without cause on my vessel."

Venport set out to complete the most important negotiations of his career.

They clearly hope the matter won't spill over into important negotiations about the future of Europe.

"In a way, the more important negotiations go on within each constituency," he explained.

There are important negotiations under way, Commissioner, which will have a positive outcome, or at least we can still be hopeful of this.

The way they were conducted was no way for us to conduct such important negotiations.

But they held important negotiations and they have learned valuable lessons.