Given a document and an entity the task is to select the author's sentiment towards the entity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the article expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the document expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the article expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Robert Lighthizer ? “Staff are working at a pace that is unheard of (in trade negotiations) ... and any suggestion that we’re not operating beyond a normal pace is just flat wrong ” U.S. trade envoy Robert Lighthizer told reporters.
 Lighthizer  said Canada had “mentioned” the U.S. ruling during talks on Wednesday.
Asked whether the dispute could affect NAFTA talks   Lighthizer  told reporters: “I‘m not saying it doesn’t have an effect on relationships  it does  but not on this negotiation.”
 Lighthizer  said the United States would “hopefully” present draft text by the next round on the thorny issue of rules of origin  which outlines how much of a product needs to originate in a NAFTA country  and on a dispute settlement mechanism.
 Lighthizer  said the U.S. decision on Bombardier still had several stages to go through before it was finalized.
“There are several more stages  we don’t even know whether it is going to be successful  and in addition there are off-ramps in the litigation ”  he  said. “It’s too early to tell.”
 Freeland  has suggested that Canada could walk away from the NAFTA talks over the so-called Chapter 19 dispute mechanism  under which binational panels make binding decisions on complaints about illegal subsidies and dumping. The United States has frequently lost such cases.
[A]: Neutral


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Ali Bongo ? Ali Bongo will be sworn in as Gabon's president this week  succeeding his late father  after a top court upheld his victory in hotly disputed presidential polls.
 The oil- and timber-rich West African nation's Constitutional Court confirmed Bongo won the election prompted by the death of his father Omar Bongo Ondimba  who had ruled the country for 41 years.
 Chief Justice Marie Madeleine Mborantsuo confirmed Bongo as the poll winner with 41.79 percent of the ballot.
 Interim president Rose Francine Rogombe will formally hand over power to Bongo as part of the ceremony at the presidential palace in Libreville. The organisers have also planned a military parade and fireworks display.
 But the secretary general of Ali Bongo's Gabonese Democratic Party  Faustin Boukoubi  said he had "a feeling of full satisfaction."
 "Right and the law have prevailed " he said. "All Gabonese have a president who will get down to all the problems of the Gabonese people and make Gabon into an emerging country."
 If reaction to the court's ruling passes without incident  Ali Bongo still faces a difficult start to his presidency  observers say.
 However  according to an official of Mamboundou's UPG (Union of Gabonese People) party  the country's ethnic mix will severely test Bongo's ability to win consensus.
 "No-one is prepared to negotiate with him " said the official. Bongo  who comes from a minority ethnic group "will have lined up against him the Fang  the Punu  and Nzebis. The country is going to be ungovernable."
[A]: Positive


[Q]: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Olivier Jakob ? “Without the reference to a June review  Russia would have been tied to the end of 2018; it wanted instead to have an escape clause ”  Petromatrix strategist Olivier Jakob  said.
“It leaves a question mark about the second half [of 2018] and about the commitment of Russian oil companies  which will be price dependent ”  he  said.
The CEO of Russia’s top private producer Lukoil told Reuters  he  would like to see the price of oil stable at current levels  trading in the $60-65 per barrel range.
The oil market is unlikely to overheat   he  added  thanks to cooperation between OPEC and its allies which would allow them to release new output into the market to rebalance it.
[A]:
Positive