Post-Lunch Walk-Through, South Beauty Restaurant, China World Hotel Beijing, China - July 17, 2007
Remarks
by Christopher R. Hill
Assistant
Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Post-Lunch
Walk-Through, South Beauty Restaurant, China World Hotel
Beijing,
China
July
17, 2007
ASSISTANT
SECRETARY HILL: I’m not talking right now. I won’t
talk. I’ll see you later. We just had a nice lunch. Not a lot
of specific discussion.
QUESTION:
Did you have discussions at the Embassy, too?
ASSISTANT
SECRETARY HILL: Very briefly, actually, because we had very bad
traffic. So we only had a few minutes at the Embassy.
QUESTION:
What’s your agenda for the rest of the day?
ASSISTANT
SECRETARY HILL: I think we have some more bilaterals with
everybody.
QUESTION:
(Inaudible).
ASSISTANT
SECRETARY HILL: Japan, Russia. I think we are going to finish
this one as well. I think tomorrow we will have China bilaterals.
QUESTION:
So you’re continuing your meetings with the North Koreans
after this?
ASSISTANT
SECRETARY HILL: Yes. We really didn’t have much
discussion at lunch.
QUESTION:
Any discussions about the next phase?
ASSISTANT
SECRETARY HILL: I don’t want to get into what we talked
about.
QUESTION:
Are you optimistic after this lunch? (Inaudible.) What was the
atmosphere like?
ASSISTANT
SECRETARY HILL: The atmosphere was very business like.
QUESTION:
Do you plan to meet with the North Koreans again today? Or are you
finished with the North Koreans today?
ASSISTANT
SECRETARY HILL: I think we’re going to finish our
discussion, because we didn’t have much of a discussion at
lunch. There’s some other things we want to talk about. And
then I have to have a meeting with the Russians. So I don’t
have a lot of time.
QUESTION:
What do you hope to achieve in the next two days?
ASSISTANT
SECRETARY HILL: I’ll talk to you later about that. I want
to have some bilateral meetings with several people, and then we will
talk about what we hope to achieve -- the same thing I talked about
in Seoul [laughter], if you had been there.
QUESTION:
Any demands that came up now?
ASSISTANT
SECRETARY HILL: No, we really have not had much of a discussion.
We reviewed a lot of things.
Okay.
Thank you. Try the food there, though, it’s really good. I
recommend the mapo doufu. [Laughter]
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