(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Hong Kong student leaders said they may shun further talks with the government, accusing it of failing to make any meaningful offers to end weeks of mass pro-democracy protests and roadblocks.
The comments are a blow to the city's Beijing-backed leaders who had expressed hopes for fresh rounds of talks after meeting students on Tuesday night for the first time.
The negotiations are widely seen as the only way to end nearly a month of protests - calling for full democracy in the semi-autonomous southern Chinese city - without a police crackdown or further violence.
There were fresh confrontations yesterday afternoon between protesters and opponents who tried to remove demonstrators' road barricades in the Mongkok district.
The first talks on Tuesday night made little headway, with students calling the government "vague" in its commitment to finding a genuine compromise.
"About whether there will be talks in the future, this is something that isn't decided," Hong Kong Federation of Students secretary general Alex Chow told reporters yesterday.
"The government has to come up with some way to solve this problem, but what they are offering does not have any practical content," Chow said.
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