Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
progress
If we're not going to make progress, we're not going to be here,
might possible talk wind
If we're not going to be here ... we'll have to talk about what possible way we might wind this up,
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,
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.
agreed air hold issues none unless
None of these issues is agreed unless all of them are agreed. We have a lot of issues in the air that we need to hold together.
billions building expensive light mean rather talking water
No one's building a light water reactor. These are rather expensive things, I mean we're talking talking billions of dollars. So that's not happening,
concerned ideas quite
but we have some ideas cooking; we're working on it. We're very concerned about the violence. It's quite widespread.
confusion create general lead mean principles problems reach setting trying work
But we are trying to work with it, and we are really trying to reach something with it. We are setting principles, but being in general principles doesn't mean you create ambiguities and lead the way to confusion and lead the way to problems in the future.