The chief Iranian negotiator, Saeed Jalili, then characterized uranium enrichment as an “irrefutable” right.
He was a negotiator at several Arab-Israeli summits and is the author of The Search for al Qaeda.
We need look no further than Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) himself, the chief GOP negotiator on this deal.
He says the negotiator was sent to Qatar without clear instructions, and his communications to Quetta effectively went unanswered.
But they depended on Bell as an expert and a negotiator, fluent in Arabic and used to the schisms and vendettas of the region.
It seemed, indeed, the very irony of fate that Ellice should be a negotiator for peace.
Rhodes offered his own services as negotiator, and they were accepted.
The secret agent who had passed as a negotiator for the drums of jeopardy had disappeared.
You need a negotiator who has a wide conscience and an eloquent tongue!
No one can suppose that Honeyman laid a complete statement of his affairs before the negotiator who was charged to look into them.
1590s, "businessman," from Latin negotiator "one who carries on business by wholesale," from negotiatus, past participle of negotiari (see negotiation). Meaning "one who carries on negotiations" is from c.1600.
"to communicate in search of mutual agreement," 1590s, back-formation from negotiation, or else from Latin negotiatus, past participle of negotiari. In the sense of "tackle successfully" (1862), it at first meant "to clear on horseback a hedge, fence, or other obstacle" and "originated in the hunting-field; those who hunt the fox like also to hunt jocular verbal novelties" [Gowers, 1965]. Related: Negotiated; negotiating.
