Negotiations were ongoing between the pirates and the captain of "Bainbridge" and FBI hostage negotiators. British diplomats soon offered the "status quo" to the U.S. negotiators, who accepted them. The FBI negotiators treated the situation as a hostage crisis. Union consent was cited as a major hurdle for negotiators to clear. Meanwhile, the police negotiators began stalling Oan. Smuts and Botha were key negotiators at the Paris Peace Conference. In these discussions, Rhodes led the BSAC negotiators. Instead, Monis received no encouragement or assistance from trained police negotiators. Communication over the next fifty-one days included telephone exchanges with various FBI negotiators. Venizelos responded angrily and the negotiators moved on. He was freed in July with the help of Malaysian negotiators. Koresh's conversations with the negotiators were dense and included biblical imagery. Only the negotiators and part of the logistics group (not including drivers) are exempted. The negotiators for Armenia were from the ARF. As a result, the other Indians broke off contact with the negotiators.