Italy's Giorgia Meloni Discusses Russia-Ukraine War At White House Meeting With Trump

Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni speaks at a roundtable at the White House.

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00:00given to us many, many points were given to us, great points.

00:03Please, Georgia, go ahead.

00:06Well, thank you very much, Donald, Mr. President, for hosting us today in this important meeting.

00:11And I think it is an important day, a new phase, after three years and a half,

00:17that we didn't see any kind of sign from the Russian side that there was a willing for dialogue.

00:24So something is changing, something has changed, thanks to you.

00:28Thanks also to the stalling in the battlefield, which was achieved with the bravery of Ukrainians

00:36and with the unity that we all provided to Ukraine.

00:41And the reason why I mention it is that we also have to remind that if we want to reach peace

00:47and if we want to guarantee justice, we have to do it united.

00:52So that's why it's a very good day, the one we are in.

00:58You can obviously count on Italy as it was from the beginning.

01:02We are on the side of Ukraine, and we do absolutely support your efforts towards peace.

01:09We will talk about many important topics.

01:15The first one is security guarantees, how to be sure that it won't happen again,

01:20which is the precondition of every kind of peace.

01:23I'm happy that we will discuss about that.

01:26I'm happy that we will begin from a proposal, which is the, let's say, Article 5 model,

01:32which was Italian at the beginning.

01:36So we are always ready to bring our proposals for peace, for dialogue.

01:41It's something we have to build together to guarantee peace

01:46and to defend the security of our nation.

01:47So thank you, Mr. President, for hosting us.

01:50Thank you very much.

01:51Emmanuel.