Thomas M. Countryman: “The U.S. relationship with China is one of the most important and complex relationships we have in the world.”

China says--and I think it is borne out by their actions--that they do not support North Korea as a nuclear weapons state and that they wish to see the entire Korean Peninsula denuclearized.

This Agreement is an example of the strength of our bilateral relationship.

We cannot allow these weapons usable materials, to be separated from spent nuclear fuel.

I would like to see this administration and this Congress make a long-term commitment to steadily expanded resources for the International Atomic Energy Agency because, yes, it is that central to U.S. security and to global security.