LONDON, Dhu-AlQa'dah 28, 1438, August 20, 2017, SPA -- Brexit minister David Davis called on the European Union on Sunday to relax its position that the two sides must first make progress on a divorce settlement before moving on to discussing future relations, Reuters reported. After a slow start to negotiations to unravel more than 40 years of union, Britain is pressing for talks to move beyond the divorce to offer companies some assurance of what to expect after Britain leaves the EU in March 2019. This week, the government will issue five new papers to outline proposals for future ties, including how to resolve any future disputes without "the direct jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ)", Davis said. "I firmly believe the early round of the negotiations have already demonstrated that many questions around our withdrawal are inextricably linked to our future relationship," Davis wrote in the Sunday Times newspaper. "Both sides need to move swiftly on to discussing our future partnership, and we want that to happen after the European Council in October," he wrote. --SPA 14:44 LOCAL TIME 11:44 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w469823