In 1975, in Rhodesia, formerly Southern Rhodesia, talks between the white minority government and black leaders opened in railway carriages near Victoria Falls.
China mediated talks in the southern Chinese town of Ruili amid ongoing fighting between the army and rebels.
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She has co-founded several successful entrepreneurial programs for the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce, including Smart-ups Pub Talks and the Southern Willamette Angel Network.
After three months of mounting violence in Serbia's southern province of Kosovo, peace talks have at last been arranged between Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Yugoslavia (which encompasses Serbia), and Ibrahim Rugova, the pro-independence leader of Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority.
It was revealed that Mr Badawi's predecessor, Mahathir Mohamad, had been brokering secret talks between Thai officials and southern separatists even before Mr Thaksin's downfall.
With both sides digging in their heels, the peace talks, being mediated by the southern Sudanese in the town of Juba, seemed doomed to failure.
For example, it took days of intensive talks last December between President Bashir and the southern leader and Sudanese Vice-President, Salva Kiir, to finally reach an agreement on the law governing the 2011 referendum.
The talks, which took place at the Great Southern Hotel near Dublin Airport, will come as good news to the Black Cats' fans who have been keen to find out developments on the saga which has been ongoing for the last two months.
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It first demanded, and quickly got, the demilitarisation of a jungle area the size of Switzerland in the southern part of the country, so that it could prepare for talks without the fear of attack.
Sources in Kabul say he and his envoys have been involved in secret talks with the Afghan president in Kabul, his representatives in southern Afghanistan and outside the country.
Fear of arrest has kept Mr Kony and three of his four cronies away from the peace talks in Juba. (The other has reportedly been killed.) Martin Ojul, the LRA's chief negotiator at the talks, promised this week that they would show up in southern Sudan along with the rest of the rebels, as required by the terms of the truce.
Southern Cross is due to meet the government and its landlords on Wednesday for crucial talks about the future of the company, which is in financial difficulty.
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And it has to do with one provision that deals with talks about beefing up a UN peacekeeping force called UNIFIL that's already in southern Lebanon.
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