Williams chief executive Adam Parr is convinced a compromise can yet be reached between the FIA and the Formula One Teams' Association.

The FIA yesterday issued legal proceedings against all eight FOTA members, due to be launched on Monday, after they announced their intention to go with a breakaway series.

FIA president Max Mosley has described FOTA's actions as posturing and posing, and firmly believes the rebels will be on the FIA grid again come the start of next season in Australia.

Although FOTA have insisted they are serious about going their own way, Parr feels the issues between the two factions are the kind that can be resolved.

Adopting a position of 'from the outside looking in' given Williams are currently suspended from FOTA after they were forced to submit a conditional entry due to contractual obligations, Parr maintains his team will assist in whatever way possible to reach a compromise.

"I would like to make it very clear Williams would do anything that met with the approval of the FIA and the FOTA teams that could result in a solution," confirmed Parr.

"We will never prevent, or be party, to anything that would prevent that from happening.

"I have to say that it seems to be the situation is not intractable because what the teams are talking about are process issues: how do you know what the rules are, how do you get governance sorted out, how do you have guarantees about what you're entering into?

"Not really having spoken to many people for a while, I find it quite encouraging actually.

"I hope that everybody out there who has an ability to help find a solution is listening carefully because I think what is being said is that it is possible to find a solution.

"Certainly Williams will play any part we can in making that happen."

Parr concedes Williams have found themselves in an uncomfortable position these past few weeks since the day they were ejected from FOTA.

However, the team had no choice given they had already received in advance through to 2012 monies from F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone to compete in F1.

"It's been awfully difficult to find ourselves on the other side of the fence," rued Parr.

"To some extent, we are - I won't say bystanders because that would be disingenuous - but we've contracts in place with Bernie and Max, and we enter the championship in light of those contracts.

"There's no way we could walk away from our contracts and raise the sort of money we would need to compete with the manufacturers, the Red Bulls and so forth.

"But it's very, very sad for us that in so doing we've drifted away from people we like, we respect and we like racing against.

"The moment we were asked to leave the room in the FOTA meeting a few weeks back was absolutely dreadful and something we will always remember with great sadness

"But I don't know what we could have done differently than what we've done.

"When I look at the future, the past few years we've been through in Williams are just not sustainable. It cannot continue like that for us. Anyway, we are where we are.

"We've made some tough choices, lost friends as a result of that perhaps, but I don't think we could have done anything differently.

"We take no pleasure in it, but those are the facts."