DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Diplomatic negotiations

... nothing to say. From my point of view I have no objection to such public negotiations so long as full reciprocity is the basis of the same, though I do entertain considerable doubt as to whether, all things considered, it is the quickest and most practical method of arriving at a result. Diplomatic negotiations are simply a matter of business. But it might easily be imagined that in the case, for instance, of commercial treaties between one country and another it would not be advisable to publish incomplete results beforehand to the world. In such ...

— In the World War • Count Ottokar Czernin