Norwegian PM Støre Urges ‘Both Sides’ To Engage With U.S. In Ukraine-Russia Ceasefire Negotiations

During a meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre discussed the Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations.

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00:00You can't do much better. Yes, yes.

00:02Mr. President, you had a long meeting with Norway today.

00:05You said that Norway has done a lot of things right.

00:08But on Ukraine, if I can ask both you and the Prime Minister,

00:11did you find common ground today on Ukraine and the peace plan?

00:15Totally. It's totally common ground.

00:17The Prime Minister can speak about it.

00:19But I can just say he wants to see people stop dying more than anything else.

00:25And he'd like to see it end. He's going to help us end it.

00:28Mr. President, can I say that to move towards an end of this war,

00:36U.S. engagement is critical, and President Trump made that possible.

00:40That is clear. That is obvious. It's really happening.

00:43Now, the important thing is that both parties have to know that they have to deliver,

00:48and they have to feel the pressure to deliver.

00:51Ukraine is under attack. They are defending themselves.

00:55Lives are being lost. And we believe very firmly that there needs to be a ceasefire,

01:01the initiative taken by the U.S. some time ago. It needs to be respected.

01:06And then to move on to something which both parties can own.

01:10That is the complicated part in such a dramatic war.

01:14And here I believe Europeans and Americans working together, as we do much closer now.

01:19I salute the team of President Trump of being open in that process.

01:23We had a good discussion on this today.

01:25And then we have to move on.

01:27And we cannot lose time because this is too much drama happening.

01:30One thing is people losing their lives.

01:32But it is a bad thing for Europe, and it's a bad thing for the world to have such a broad conflict going on.

01:38It can have ramifications far beyond Ukraine.