Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
agreement anticipate early fifth move next quickly round september stage starting talks thereafter
If we can get an agreement at the end of August, quickly thereafter in September we will move to the next stage ...the so-called fifth round of the six-party talks we would anticipate starting at very early fall.
coming consulting focused include obviously partners plans travel weeks
I don't have any plans yet and I am obviously going to be very focused in the coming weeks of consulting with other partners and that could well include DPRK but I haven't made any travel plans yet.
besides discussed meetings plan purpose sure
I don't have any plan because meetings should have a purpose and we've already discussed our positions. So I'm not sure of the purpose to have a meeting, besides (that) I'm in Tokyo.
further meetings
I don't have any further six-party meetings planned, to my knowledge.
among construct detect light parties type water
I don't detect among any of the parties a willingness to construct a light water reactor which will be a very expensive, very long-term type of project,
including several trying work
Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it, ... But we're trying to work with it, to do something with it.
including several
Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it,
difficulty including several
Several delegations, including ours, had difficulties with it,
delay four lose math million weeks
So for every four weeks they delay, they lose 80 million dollars, and you can do the math from here.
additional capacity develop difficult expensive extremely good meet nuclear projects proposal reason
So if this is about energy, we've got a very good proposal for that. This would really meet their capacity needs. We don't see any reason to go and develop additional capacity, especially through such very difficult and extremely expensive projects as nuclear energy.
coming forward fund issue parties prepared seen talking
So I haven't seen any of the parties coming forward to say that they are prepared to fund such a thing, so we are talking about a theoretical issue at this period.
fund neither nor prepared process states united
Neither the United States nor any other participants in the six-party process is prepared to fund a light-water reactor,
assume civilian issue peaceful problems
One should not assume that the outstanding problems all have to do with the issue of so-called peaceful use or civilian use.
approach assure believes course government
Of course not everyone agrees with this... but I can assure you that the US government believes this is the right approach and this is what we are doing.