The delay in reaching agreement between Khartoum and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement has also produced a stalemate in the talks on Darfur.

Agreement is being sought on fundamental constitutional issues, such as the balance of power between the President and the Prime Minister and between the central Government and the provinces.

Consensus among the groups is consensus among their members, who are all members of the same Conference on Disarmament.

Consensus was achieved among interested parties through extensive consultations.

To date, there is no agreement across countries as to the standard to be adopted for measuring access.

And then, before you get together, agree on some ground rules.

Did they reach agreement and arrive at consensus on the question of mines?

Take joint positions with your client.

The guidelines will need to attain a certain technical and policy level balance and consistency before they can be formally agreed and released.

At times it appeared that we had reached agreement, and then it appeared we had not.

The former has been unable to agree upon a programme of work, the latter on an agenda.

There is not yet a consensus.

The Government was also committed to addressing socio economic disparities between Maori and non Maori and to reaching fair and durable settlements of grievances that had arisen historically between the two communities.

There was a manner of working in the Conference whereby attempts were made to reach consensus during consultations and to present the points to be discussed in the plenary when that consensus was reached.

Solutions to global environmental problems must be based on holistic approaches that facilitate coherence between multiple sectors and stakeholders.

What is required is agreement between the Parties on the exact role of the Secretariat at this point in the life of the Convention, as discussed below.

What I do not think is appropriate is to interpret the rules of procedure as involving twofold consensus, that we need consensus among the members of the Conference and we need consensus among the groups.

All of a sudden, nine percent just goes away, and nobody to this day can even agree on what happened because nobody ordered it, nobody asked for it.

There was a consensus yesterday that you concluded there was no consensus on how to establish consensus on the proposal made by Finland.

Remember, fellas. We stand pat. Okay.

For once, your incentives are aligned.

There was no consensus on that issue among members of the Committee.

This paved the way towards the achievement of a common ground and the building up of a consensus on the subject.

And what are the elements of consensus or quasi consensus which should inspire our proceedings?

However, unfortunately, rather than helping to achieve consensus, those ideas only increased the distance and divisions between the different positions.

The problem was compounded by the often prolonged trade negotiations among States, with the result that any consensus reached was mostly irrelevant.

Those delegations expressed the hope that further efforts would be made by the Office for Outer Space Affairs to foster consensus on those matters among all interested States in the region.

We have tried to reach late agreement that has not been possible.

After nine years of discussion, most participants now accepted that some compromise would be needed on all sides.

Issue 5 Agreement on jurisdiction following a dispute Draft article 75 bis

She asked whether a consensus existed on the inclusion of the related paragraph 3 bis.

I do not know what can have changed between yesterday afternoon and this morning, but if there was no consensus yesterday afternoon, my delegation is not aware of there being any new element that would bring about consensus today for taking such a decision.

In addition to the guidelines, IADC produced and agreed upon a document entitled Support to the IADC space debris mitigation guidelines .

258. On the agreement between Romania and Germany, the representatives acknowledged that an agreement had been made between the two countries.

Yesterday, as recounted by you, during consultations, there was no consensus on the amended text.

17. Similar to the problem of intra government incoherence and perhaps contributing to it to some degree is the problem of inter donor incoherence.

We have always been in favour of a consensus solution to this issue.

The implementation period ahead gives us a second chance to make good on those moments when we allowed agreements to slip through our fingers.

From there, we dove in.

However, no consensus had been achieved on those issues.

It's settled then. Let's go.

I think it would be wise of us to arrive at an understanding.

We also thank other Member States for coming to agreement after two weeks of difficult negotiations.

Amendments shall enter into force after all Contracting Parties reach agreement and sign separate protocols.

It took the Ad Hoc Open ended Working Group of the General Assembly on an Agenda for Development four years to reach consensus.