242 Quotes by Christopher Hill

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.

The Chinese have a great investment in the process. They want it to work as much as we do.

We got some things done, but it's not as much as I'd like and it's not going to get us there in the time span that we think we ought to get there,

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.

all of the participants understand what they signed up for.

We certainly, I think, have a better idea of what their position is, although I must tell you that their position does seem to be evolving a little. So I am sort of reluctant to put too much emphasis in the discussions that have been carried on through the press.

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.

The latest draft put together by the Chinese delegation is a very negotiated document, ... We were really getting close, close to the end of this round.

We are trying to work with it, ... We are trying to reach something with it. How this turns out we don't know yet.