The goal was to get the paramilitaries to come to the negotiation table.

These are intended to disrupt the network of the insurgents and force them to the negotiation table.

"We've taken this step because sitting professionally at the negotiation table is not helping."

"Dear friends, if you want to solve the problem, the place is around the negotiation table," he told them.

Should the constitution be rejected on Oct. 15, everyone can head back to the negotiation table and try again.

So it's off to the negotiation table is it?

This is a process of worldwide significance that must, in my view, be recognised at the negotiation table.

In short, I feel that, on this matter, we have all benefited from the many opinions expressed at the negotiation table.

Three months on from the election, they're not even sitting around the negotiation table.

However, neither country could reach an acceptable compromise at the negotiation table.