It is very clear in the agreement what they need to do,
It's a good agreement for all of us. We have to see what comes in the days and weeks ahead. We have to seize the momentum of this.
really designed to narrow the differences and maybe, maybe even get to the point where we can really agree on something.
Everybody is the winner. This is a win-win situation. We got an agreement on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
It wasn't easy, but I think important things don't come easily, and I think it's a very important agreement.
We're not prepared to make a separate agreement for them to freeze programs. We don't want to get into a situation where they stop the programs - in short, freeze the programs, and then expect us to compensate them for a freeze.
The problem is not yet solved but we hope it can be solved eventually through this agreement. We have to take the momentum of this agreement and see that it is implemented.
KPMG has been going over our books for a couple of months getting ready to release the 2005 quarterly results and they came across this. They checked it with Deloitte, and Deloitte has agreed with KPMG's methodology.
You know how you build up trust? You live up to the agreement. You come up with solid implementing schemes that enable you to move forward and show that what you've agreed to do in the agreement, you're actually doing and that's the best way to build up trust.
You know how you build up trust? You live up to the agreement ... You can build up trust through actions.
Whether this agreement helps solve this will depend in large measure on what we do in the days and weeks that follow.
This is first time they have committed to completely dismantle their weapons in an international agreement. They cannot just stall and pretend it does not exist. I think they have gotten the message.
We are not aware of whether at the end we will have an agreement or disagreement. We still don't know,
We're going to discuss a way forward on the six-party talks. Obviously what we need is for all six parties to agree to a date.
We need to have a situation where we know precisely what they have agreed to do, what they have agreed to abandon so we can precisely react to that.
So the question is why are they standing aside, losing so much money from only the energy agreement ... they have to answer that question.
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.
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.
We are hoping that if we can get through these principles, we can get going with an actual agreement in September, or the latest in October and see if we can finally put this terrible problem to bed,
We agreed that we need to step up the pace to move ahead, but we also agreed there continue to be a lot of differences between the Serbs and Albanians on this,
The Beijing agreement on principle in September I think was a very important agreement, but it needs to be followed up on an agreement on implementation.
I think the Chinese draft is an excellent basis for reaching an agreement.
is to see how we can take an agreement in principle and begin to see how an agreement in principle can be put into practice.
We'd like to see if we can get to an agreement, and we're not there yet. No one is quite ready to say we can't get there.
It is a good agreement for all of us.
They (North Korea) introduced some elements that are not in the agreed principles