00:00Well, obviously, one of the most important issues at today's NATO Foreign Affairs Ministerial
00:04Meeting is the ongoing peace talks between the United States, Russia and Ukraine.
00:09We heard from Mark Rutte, the NATO Secretary General, this morning saying peace talks
00:12are ongoing, but NATO's priority is to ensure that Ukraine can negotiate from a position
00:17of strength, and therefore he urged NATO allies and others to provide much more military support
00:22for Ukraine so it can do that.
00:24Notable by his absence is U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is not here.
00:28NATO officials have been playing this down, saying they can understand that he wasn't
00:32able to show up because there's so many other issues that he needs to tend to.
00:36But you would imagine that he would use this opportunity to brief his 31 allies at this
00:41really crucial moment.
00:43Also on the agenda is the issue of what to do with frozen Russian assets, which are mainly
00:47held here in Belgium, 180 billion euros of them, but are also held in France, the UK and Canada.
00:53We had heard in the past that the U.S. and Russia maybe wanted to take these assets and use them
00:58for a vehicle in response to the war in Ukraine, but really allies and others believe that these
01:04assets should be going to Ukraine for reconstruction.
01:06So that will be on the agenda today.
01:08We'll hear later on as to what evolves from that discussion, but we do know that the Belgian
01:13government is very much dead against this because they're concerned about illegal repercussions.
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