Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
dragged gets impression line people ready themselves
One gets the impression there are some people back in Pyongyang who still have not dragged themselves over the line to be ready to give this up,
charge check looking message money okay opportunity opposed send
Once you give us the okay for payment, we check to see that you have enough money in your account; and if you don't, we'll send you a message as opposed to looking at it as an opportunity to charge you for insufficient funds,
achieve consensus last
During the last 13 days, we were able to achieve a lot of consensus on some issues, I thought we had made a lot of progress.
useful
as long as I feel it is useful to be here.
definitely recess sort
A recess is one of the sort of termination scenarios. It's definitely an idea which we don't want to do,
committed diplomatic full states united work
The United States is very much committed to this diplomatic process. We want it to work and we want full participation in it and we want it to succeed.
agreed elements introduced principles
They (North Korea) introduced some elements that are not in the agreed principles
asking given nuclear outside technology
They are asking to be given nuclear technology when they are outside the treaty, which is impossible.
agreement aware whether
We are not aware of whether at the end we will have an agreement or disagreement. We still don't know,
best decided talks
We decided the best thing to do is to put the talks into recess.
decided time
We decided it was time to end it and go to recess, with the idea that they can go back and think about what they've been told, which is, they're not going to get a light-water reactor,
again forward governor touch
We've been in touch with Governor Richardson and we look forward to being in touch with him again on his return.
deal good
We have a pretty good deal on the table.
pace pick
We are going to have to pick up the pace if we are going to get there,