On October 13, 2006 an agreement was proposed after three days of multiparty talks at St. Andrews in Scotland, which all parties including the DUP, supported.

It also called for the resumption of multiparty constitutional talks, disrupted following the Boipatong massacre in June [see p. 38948].

This arrangement already had the endorsement of Mr. de Klerk and must now be sold to other participants in multiparty talks, expected to resume next month.

London and Dublin, who claim to hold a common objective for the province, want to set up a viable platform for a resumption in the multiparty talks.

The Bush administration said today that North Korea appeared ready to agree to proposed multiparty talks to resolve the impasse over the North's refusal to dismantle its accelerating nuclear weapons program.

The men met at the World Trade Center on Johannesburg's outskirts, where the multiparty constitutional talks deadlocked in May.

Mr. de Klerk and congress leaders say they expect the multiparty talks, which broke down last year, to resume in March.

The two parties agreed to open multiparty talks on post-World War II political reforms via a Political Consultative Conference.

It's true, as the administration enthusiastically announced yesterday, that we seem to be moving toward a new round of multiparty talks with North Korea, and that's great.

An announcement in Moscow that North Korea had accepted the proposal for multiparty talks was the foremost indicator.