00:00Please can I ask you to be upstanding and give a warm round of applause to Taoiseach
00:25Micheál Martin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. Thank you so much.
00:31For your bravery and your fortitude in the face.
00:34It is with real great pleasure to introduce now on stage His Excellency Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
00:41Please join us. Thank you so much. Thank you for being here.
00:47Really between us it's very difficult to comment the words of the leader of Russia because he really doesn't want to finish this war.
00:59Because he didn't get all the goals what he wanted at the very beginning of this aggression.
01:04He wanted to destroy us totally, our freedom, our people.
01:09But he really been very surprised. Everybody understands who knows him and who doesn't.
01:15And that he didn't get any real goal what he wanted.
01:21Putin, I mean, now he's thinking how to find new reasons not to finish this war.
01:28And we count on pressure from the United States. And they are people of the world. I think so.
01:33They are a very strong country. And they said that we have to work on this plan and they will pressure on both sides.
01:41Of course, we wanted them to be more on our side, but OK, mediator than mediator.
01:47And they began to pressure both sides and we supported the ideas.
01:52It's a little bit optimism was, in my words, because of the some speed of negotiations and from American side, the interest in it.
02:05It showed that America is not withdrawing now from any kind of diplomatic way of dialogue.
02:12And it's good. And it's been that they gave us a signal. So it's about negotiations.
02:19If you are ready, we will work. They've got these signals from us.
02:24But this is where we are. I mean, for me, it's nothing new. The words of Putin, not new.
02:30But we have to hope. Not just hope. We hope and work. Hardly work each day.
02:38And we hope, of course, because we want peace. That's why it's optimism.
02:43I think this is realism. We need to bring peace closer.
02:48Yes, we tried our best and it worked. And it works still.
02:53I'm very thankful to your country. You're one of these best hour friends. Thank you.
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