The status of opposition cooperation talks

According to one of the reports, the negotiations even had to be suspended owing to the BMD's attitude.  Another story claimed that in response to the alleged uncooperative attitude of the BMD negotiators, some unspecified opposition politicians had suggested that the party should be excluded from the negotiations.

In our capacity as the conveners of the negotiations, we can confirm that the negotiating teams are indeed currently discussing the allocation of constituencies and wards to their respective parties (within the "umbrella" model) in preparation for the 2014 elections.  However, we categorically deny that the BMD negotiators displayed inflexibility or selfishness at any stage of the negotiations on this matter. What happened was that all the negotiating teams bargained as hard as they could in an effort to achieve their respective objectives, which was to be expected in any negotiations, given the importance of the subject to all four parties.