According to a transcript sent out by email from the U.S. Mission in Geneva, the U.S. found that its face-to-face talks with a North Korean delegation went well. Here are selected excerpts:
U.S. ASSISTANT SECRETARY CHRISTOPHER HILL —
I think we reached, I think, a substantial understanding between the two of us on what needs to be accomplished in the months ahead and what the overall parameters are for what we’re trying to achieve. This next phase — which has to do with disablement and declaration on the DPRK side and fuel oil and economic and energy assistance, as well as some bilateral considerations on our part — is of course a very critical phase. But I think we have an understanding of the way forward, and I think we will be able to go into the Six-Party plenary when we have it, depending on when the Chinese can schedule it. I believe it will be in the middle of September.
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I do anticipate that at the next plenary session we will have a February style-agreement, which would be aimed at having a more detailed implementation plan for disablement and the other factors that I just mentioned …
All in all I think it was a very substantive discussion today, one of the most substantive we’ve had. We discussed all of the aspects, all the issues that we needed to discuss. But we have, I think, much more to discuss.
And we will get going again at dinner and then tomorrow morning at the DPRK mission…
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