The Chinese have a great investment in the process. They want it to work as much as we do.
We are trying to work with it, ... We are trying to reach something with it. How this turns out we don't know yet.
I know there's an election in Japan, but it doesn't mean there isn't going to be a government in Japan, so I'm sure we'll be able to work closely together and I'm sure there will be real continuity in what we need to get done.
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.
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.
Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it, ... But we're trying to work with it, to do something with it.
We are looking forward to getting things going as scheduled, ... What we really have to do is ... identify the way forward and see how the principles will actually work in practice.