Christopher Hill Prepared Quotations

So I haven't seen any of the parties coming forward to say that they are prepared to fund such a thing, so we are talking about a theoretical issue at this period.

Neither the United States nor any other participants in the six-party process is prepared to fund a light-water reactor,

I have made it very clear and I think the other delegations have made it clear that nobody is prepared to fund the light water reactors and that they should rather focus on the elements that are on the table...

I have made it very clear, and I think the other delegations have made it clear, although I'll let them speak for themselves, that nobody is prepared to fund the light water reactor, and they should rather focus on the elements that are on the table and understand that those elements would be very beneficial.

For us, the fundamental question is whether the DPRK (North Korea) is prepared to abandon its nuclear programs. And as you know its nuclear programs are involved with the production of materials for nuclear weapons,

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.

We will be prepared to have a discussion about the subject of the provision of a light water reactor but only after (North Korea) gets rid of its nuclear weapons, gets rid of its nuclear programs, gets back into the NPT and has IAEA safeguards,

I must say it was a meeting in which we did not make a lot of progress. Neither the United States or any other participant is prepared to fund a light-water reactor.