"We are making good progress and I am very hopeful that we will be able to get past that issue and move ahead to expand defense cooperation between us,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

"If we get to the summer of 2011 and people do not feel that we have made real progress, then I do not think there is an appetite here - or an appetite in the U.S.- to say, 'Well let us have another go and another go.'

VOA: standard.2010.08.04