The two governments have huge international backing to continue the peace process and make their negotiations succeed.
Yet it is now less likely than before that negotiations will succeed.
But it is not clear that such negotiations would succeed.
If the negotiations succeed, they could remove a major obstacle to Senate action on the measure.
The prevailing view in the capital is that the negotiations will succeed.
If negotiations do not succeed, he said, the coalition will choose between the two in a new vote.
"If the negotiations don't succeed, it's the end of the Government."
There has been, and I hope those negotiations will succeed.
We find ourselves in this situation because the negotiations have not succeeded.
The negotiations will not succeed without a real push from the President.