United States President Barack Obama and the Republican party leadership have decided to continue talks to find any possible deal to re-open government and raise the debt ceiling, but there was no immediate resolution in site to end the current impasse.

The White House described a telephonic conversation between Obama and John Boehner, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, as good and constructive.

"Two of them agreed that all sides need to keep talking on the issues here that are confronting us that have led to a shutdown of a government and to the situation that has put us on the precipice of potential default or at least reaching that line beyond which the United States government does not have borrowing authority," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said yesterday.

He, however, said there has not been any change in the position of the US president.