Meanings of substantive talks in English

Key issue to watch: -Progress on resuming substantive talks with Pakistan.

Key issue to watch: -Progress on resuming substantive talks.

Key issues to watch: -Progress on resuming substantive talks.

Brotherhood officials denied that any substantive talks had taken place.

Diplomats suspect Iran is buying time by stalling over getting into any substantive talks.

No substantive talks are planned between Clinton and the Iranian envoy at the meeting.

They include Sinn Fein's almost immediate entry into substantive talks and a fixed timeframe for negotiations.

Clinton's predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, exchanged pleasantries with Iran's foreign minister at international conferences but they never held substantive talks.

Rice exchanged pleasantries with Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki at those events but never had substantive talks with him.

But they may have more substantive talks on the fringes of a G-20 summit in Argentina later in November.

French deal negotiators returned this week from China after a final round of substantive talks with state-owned Dongfeng, he said.

Given the political will, this package has the potential to lead directly to substantive talks that could reach a settlement.

These could form the basis for substantive talks before, at and beyond the November conference called by US president George Bush.

The president's tight schedule on the one-day trip to Ottawa leaves little time for substantive talks with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

There is an urgent need to revitalise the Northern Ireland peace process by a rapid transition to substantive talks on a settlement.

A Ulster Unionist Party source said that there was now little prospect of substantive talks beginning "before Christmas if then".