It has even postponed negotiations with Russia over energy security.

Let us postpone negotiations until that time."

Metro-North wants to freeze current wages for a year and postpone negotiations for later increases until a contract is signed.

Without the backing of the Netherlands, the proposal to postpone negotiations submitted by Belgium and Luxembourg was immediately rejected.

And a member of the Giants' family disclosed recently that Parcells had kept postponing negotiations with General Manager George Young for a contract extension.

He will be an unrestricted free agent after the season, and the Knicks and Wilkins's lawyer, Bob Woolf, have postponed negotiations until after the season.

After hours of argument, delegates agreed to allow the parties to the 1992 treaty to postpone negotiations on the principles, rules, guidelines and operations of the trading system until November.

The new name was part of a strategy that House Republican leaders devised last month when they decided to hold hearings through the summer to build support for their position, postponing negotiations with the Senate.

At issue are wages - the M.T.A. wants to freeze wages during the first year of a new contract, and postpone negotiations for increases in the second year - and a variety of work-rule changes.

The 1993 self-rule accord signed by Israel and the P.L.O. does not bar settlement building, and postpones negotiations on settlements to talks on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

A Chinese government white paper released two weeks ago said that China could attack Taiwan if the island nation - the refuge of the Chinese Nationalists after the Communists won control of the mainland in 1949 - indefinitely postponed negotiations.

The political uncertainty has already had damaging consequences: the often postponed negotiations with the International Monetary Fund on a standby agreement, and with the Paris Club of Western banks on rescheduling Russia's $80 billion debt, have been pushed back to next year.

If this proves unattainable, I must appeal to the Member States to make use of unanimity and postpone negotiations with Turkey, as was done – unjustly – in the case of Croatia on 16 March – one day before negotiations were due to begin.

On April 25, 1942, the British government sounded its positions on the matter in a memorandum to the US government, in which it agreed to abolish extra-territorial jurisdiction in principle, but suggested to postpone negotiations to that effect until the end of the war.

President Algirdas Brazauskas of Lithuania said in a national radio address today that he had agreed in a telephone conversation with President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia to keep to the original schedule for withdrawal and to postpone negotiations on any compensation.

On being notified by the department that it intended to indefinitely postpone negotiations for the purchase of the affected land, Morley thanked them by letter on 23 May 1929 for their candour and advised that he intended to proceed with his intentions for the land.