If we’re talking CBMs, let’s talk properly

Is there some reason the President and his spokespeople keep hammering home that confidence-building measures (CBMs) aren’t a precondition for convening the five-party conference?

The President said it himself straight after Guterres’s press conference (“if we have CBMs, that’s certainly a positive development, but it’s not a precondition for convening the meeting”). Then “government sources” were saying it via CNA. Then the government spokespeople took up the line. Yesterday Victoras...