00:00Armenia on Monday hosted the eighth meeting of the European political community,
00:06an informal all-inclusive format that began soon after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:13German Chancellor Friedrich Merz currently at the center of a geopolitical controversy
00:19after declaring that Iran had humiliated the United States in the war was the most notable absentee.
00:26Meanwhile, his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney's attendance was the first time a non-European leader took part in an EPC
00:35meeting.
00:36Carney defended a rules-based global order anchored in freedom, rule of law, democracy and pluralism.
00:44Now we have to actively take on the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.
00:49We know nostalgia is not a strategy, but we don't think that we're destined to submit to a more transactional,
00:55insular and brutal world.
00:58Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was also present and held several bilateral meetings with European leaders,
01:06including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
01:09He urged leaders to avoid the example set by the U.S. and oppose any sanctions relief for Russia.
01:16Meanwhile, on the sidelines of the summit, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen met with Starmer
01:22to discuss London's plan to participate in the €90 billion support loan for Ukraine that Brussels adopted last month.
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