William R. Richardson: “It's important that we have a strong sensible policy to deal with it rather than continue refusing to negotiate and talk…”

Perhaps a vaguer statement that says tensions are less and the war is over, OK. Maybe. But not as a tradeoff unless there is substantial denuclearization.

His main objective is to stay in power, more so than detente with the United States.

But, yet, China and Russia are cheating and so what we wanted to do is go after the bigger banks.

This was a concession in the first summit that we got nothing in return. So we should not concede that one again.