During a meeting with President Trump and European leaders on Monday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for increased pressure on Russia to accept a ceasefire with Ukraine.
00:00That's great. Thank you very much. Mr. Chancellor from Germany, a very, very great leader.
00:08Mr. President, dear Donald, many thanks for having us today. I think this is extremely helpful that we are meeting and hearing that the two of you are having such a good meeting today here in Washington.
00:22The next steps ahead are the more complicated ones now. The path is open. You opened it last Friday. But now the way is open for complicated negotiations.
00:36And to be honest, we all would like to see a ceasefire, the latest from the next meeting on. I can't imagine that the next meeting would took place without a ceasefire.
00:50So let's work on that and let's try to put pressure on Russia because the credibility of these efforts, these efforts we are undertaking today are depending on at least a ceasefire from the beginning of the serious negotiations from next step on.
01:06So I would like to emphasize this aspect and would like to see a ceasefire from the next meeting, which should be a trilateral meeting wherever it takes place.
01:18Well, we're going to let the president go over and talk to the president and we'll see how that works out.
01:25And if we can do that, I will say and again, I say it in the six wars that I've settled, I haven't had a ceasefire.
01:32We just got into negotiations and they one of the wars was, as you know, in the Congo was 30 years, 31 years long.
01:41Another one that we settled last week with two great countries was 35 years going on and we had no ceasefire.
01:48So if we can do the ceasefire, great.
01:51And if we don't do a ceasefire, because many other points were given to us, many, many points were given to us, great points.
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