Alexander Alexeyev Quotations

There is no doubt that the negotiations will not be easy, ... There is a need for practical steps to implement the principles of the joint statement adopted at the previous round of the talks.

From my point of view, the main goal of the six parties is to achieve the dismantlement of all nuclear programs and weapons, ... This (point) is achieved and definitely and clearly said in the document.

Our position is to strengthen and develop this cooperation, which would be in the mutual interests of the two countries.

We have a chance to get a joint document of principles tomorrow.

We firmly expect to achieve progress and advance beyond agreements reached at ... previous talks,

We think that this new document is balanced in character, and it includes North Korea's right to peaceful atomic energy and the possibility in the long term of building a light-water nuclear reactor,

We think that the new draft document is balanced and mentions the rights of North Korea to peaceful nuclear technology and the possibility of building a light water reactor in due time in the future,

Russia has always insisted that as a sovereign state, the DPRK can develop its peaceful nuclear program in keeping with international law,

Approval by all the sides of a joint document on the principles and ways leading to the demilitarization of the Korean Peninsula ... would mean a success of the fourth round's continuation,

Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to settle all the remaining problems

I keep my fingers crossed because still nothing is accepted,

However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect any radical breakthroughs.

The draft common document presented by China host is acceptable to all parties.