Remarks at Beijing Capital International Airport

Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Beijing Capital International Airport
Beijing, China
February 7, 2007

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL: Hi, do you have any questions? OK, I’ll see you later; I’ll see you at the Six-Party Talks.

QUESTION: What’s your schedule today?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL: I’m sorry?

QUESTION: What’s your schedule today?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL: I can’t hear you.

QUESTION: What’s your schedule today?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL: What’s my schedule today? I’m going to see the Chinese in a couple of hours; talk with them and consult with them about how they see the next few days. It’s a very important session. We all know what we need to try to accomplish, so let’s hope we’ll have some success. But it will depend on all parties.

QUESTION: Are you more hopeful than last time?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL: How hopeful was I last time? I don’t remember.

QUESTION: (Inaudible)

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL: All right. Well, I don’t know. We worked very hard for this, had consultations all over the place. So let’s see if we can make some progress. But I want to emphasize the real success will be when we complete the September ’05 agreement -- not just when we start [implementing] the ’05 agreement, but when we finish it. So we’re not going to finish that this week; we’ll maybe just take a good first step. So we’ll see how that goes.

Okay, see you all later. Bye-bye.

Released on February 7, 2007