00:00it's been a great summit hosted by president macron in paris 35 countries represented 27
00:09at the level of the leaders australia was represented there at the level of an ambassador
00:15it was an important meeting because we were discussing and came up with a plan
00:20of the security guarantees and on the deployment of british and french troops on the ukrainian
00:27territory and we were discussing and our defense people were discussing what kind of weapons will
00:33be put in place the troops and numbers and also what could be the contribution from other members
00:39of the coalition of the willing because of course the key priority is to end this war enforce russia
00:45into ending this war but what was discussed in paris what kind of deterrence we can build to
00:52uh make sure that russians don't reinvade even if they agree to some sort of ceasefire in the
00:58region armistice uh anytime if it happens right but but there is always a talk and what could be the
01:04role of america and how america can support and back this uh security guarantees so i mean given
01:11these developments we did see uh the u.s special envoy for peace steve whitkoff saying the negotiations
01:17over security protocols have largely finished so i guess flowing from that how quickly could we see
01:22peace uh it all depends on russia now and uh and certainly the the negotiations that we will
01:30been engaging in good faith for the past uh year uh have demonstrated that ukraine is a country that
01:37wants to achieve peace as soon as possible but it was russia which has demonstrated many times that
01:42they're not interested in peace they've been continuing the war uh just overnight they've
01:47sent over 60 different drones and missiles to different targets uh they they've been hitting a big
01:55hospital uh just over the weekend in kiev so the you know attacks from russia are incessant uh they
02:02are ongoing it's now winter and uh of course we rely on the leadership of president trump and on the
02:08negotiations we've had with americans and the europeans including this summit in paris and we
02:14hope we can force russia into peace and have them end this war it all depends on russia certainly so
02:20if moscow ends up bowing to this enormous uh international pressure that we're now seeing
02:26both britain and france have declared that they will send peacekeeping troops to ukraine in the
02:31aftermath of a peace deal would you like to see a similar move from australia as well
02:36uh it's what this is exactly what was discussed yesterday in paris what could be the contribution
02:43of other countries of the coalition of the willing and uh and when the right time comes there will be
02:49requests made for any of the australian troops for now the key priority is of course for those based
02:55in europe which includes france and britain and their deployment uh which which which is now on the
03:01table uh australia can certainly contribute to the coalition and willing by supplying air defense
03:07missiles or providing more equipment or making contributions to the pearl program which is
03:12prioritize ukraine's requirements list which australia has recently done and as you know on monday
03:18president zelensky had a phone call with prime minister anthony albanese they he was able to brief
03:23the prime minister on the developments around the peace negotiations uh he briefed him on this upcoming
03:30summit and they had a very good discussion and they have discussed of what else we could do on a
03:36bilateral level to enhance uh the security of both countries because certainly that security of europe
03:44will define the security of the india pacific and there is a clear connection about the regional
03:49security of of australia and we must make sure that a grassroots uh does not it's not rewarded with
03:54any territory or is not seen as being rewarded uh hence we deter any other authoritarian leader in the
04:02region from doing anything similar or following ukraine you know russia's uh path
04:16you
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