During a meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre discussed the Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations.
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00:00You can't do much better. Yes, yes.
00:02Mr. President, you had a long meeting with Norway today.
00:05You said that Norway has done a lot of things right.
00:08But on Ukraine, if I can ask both you and the Prime Minister,
00:11did you find common ground today on Ukraine and the peace plan?
00:15Totally. It's totally common ground.
00:17The Prime Minister can speak about it.
00:19But I can just say he wants to see people stop dying more than anything else.
00:25And he'd like to see it end. He's going to help us end it.
00:28Mr. President, can I say that to move towards an end of this war,
00:36U.S. engagement is critical, and President Trump made that possible.
00:40That is clear. That is obvious. It's really happening.
00:43Now, the important thing is that both parties have to know that they have to deliver,
00:48and they have to feel the pressure to deliver.
00:51Ukraine is under attack. They are defending themselves.
00:55Lives are being lost. And we believe very firmly that there needs to be a ceasefire,
01:01the initiative taken by the U.S. some time ago. It needs to be respected.
01:06And then to move on to something which both parties can own.
01:10That is the complicated part in such a dramatic war.
01:14And here I believe Europeans and Americans working together, as we do much closer now.
01:19I salute the team of President Trump of being open in that process.
01:23We had a good discussion on this today.
01:25And then we have to move on.
01:27And we cannot lose time because this is too much drama happening.
01:30One thing is people losing their lives.
01:32But it is a bad thing for Europe, and it's a bad thing for the world to have such a broad conflict going on.
01:38It can have ramifications far beyond Ukraine.