New Delhi, Sept 04: As the Saturday deadline for the crucial Cabinet Committee on Disinvestment meeting approaches, hectic backroom activity between pro- and anti-disinvestment groups to iron out differences was witnessed on Wednesday. And at the end of it all, there appears to be some sort of thaw. Defence minister George Fernandes, standard-bearer of the 'anti' group, had a 90-minutemeeting here this afternoon with disinvestment minister Arun Shourie and BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley at the instance of Prime Minister AB Vajpayee, after which they emerged smiling.