1.   The government opened negotiations with the IMF for another loan.

2.   They are now ready to open negotiations.

3.   Ministers also agreed to open negotiations to find an acceptable formula to bring the three Chinas into the group.

4.   After taking possession of the letter Prez de Cullar returned to Geneva and opened diplomatic negotiations aimed at bringing the hostage crisis to an end.

5.   On the same day EC foreign ministers agreed in principle to open negotiations on an association agreement with Romania.

6.   The official negotiations will be opened immediately after the Treaty on European Union is ratified and the agreement has been achieved on the Delors II package.

7.   It was their own particular relationship with the papacy that allowed precisely those territories that they were seeking to control to open negotiations with the pope.

8.   The ILP had opened negotiations with the Communist Party for joint agitation on immediate demands while still affiliated to the Labour Party.

9.   An independent Quebec, he says, would immediately open negotiations to join the North American Free Trade Agreement and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

10.   And in truth, Japan had started trying to open surrender negotiations as early as June.