IPSE by Day - 18 February 2025

Steve Witkoff

Inserted 1 month ago

“The meeting was positive, upbeat, constructive. Everybody was there to get to the right outcome.”

Apnews

President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy

18 Feb 2025 1 3

Marco Rubio

Inserted 1 month ago

“Ending the war in Ukraine could unlock the door for incredible opportunities that exist to partner with the Russians geopolitically on issues of common interest and, frankly, economically on issues that hopefully will be good for the world and also improve our relations in the long term.”

Apnews

U.S. Secretary of State

18 Feb 2025 5 4

Sergey Lavrov

Inserted 1 month ago

“We explained today that the deployment of any troops, any armed forces from NATO countries but under other flags, either the European Union or national flags, changes nothing in this context. For us, of course, this is unacceptable.”

Tass

Russian Foreign Minister

18 Feb 2025 3 4

Marco Rubio

Inserted 1 month ago

“Russia and the United States have agreed to restore their embassies in Moscow and Washington to previous staffing levels to facilitate continued diplomatic engagement. We will need active work of diplomatic missions capable of functioning normally to be able to continue these contacts.”

Tass

U.S. Secretary of State

18 Feb 2025 4 2

Jana Puglierin

Inserted 1 month ago

“February 2022 destroyed our faith in a collective security order with Russia and showed us the dark side of our fundamental dependence on Russia and China in critical areas. February 2025 shows us that the Americans no longer feel responsible for European security - and that their interests are fundamentally different from ours.”

Rferl

Head of the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank

18 Feb 2025 6 4

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 month ago

“Ukraine, Europe in a broad sense - and this includes the European Union, Turkiye, and the UK - should be involved in conversations and the development of the necessary security guarantees with America regarding the fate of our part of the world.”

Aje

President of Ukraine

18 Feb 2025 4 3

Mariia Mezentseva

Inserted 1 month ago

“It's not yet very clear how this negotiating table will look. But defence and justice must be at the forefront of any solution to end the war, and the US, Europe and Ukraine must be on board. It's not Russia who can dictate the rules because they are the invaders. It has to be absolutely [reversed].”

Aje

Head of Ukraine’s delegation to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly

18 Feb 2025 4 4

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“The meeting was positive, upbeat, constructive. Everybody was there to get to the right outcome.”

“Ending the war in Ukraine could unlock the door for incredible opportunities that exist to partner with the Russians geopolitically on issues of common interest and, frankly, economically on issues that hopefully will be good for the world and also improve our relations in the long term.”

“We explained today that the deployment of any troops, any armed forces from NATO countries but under other flags, either the European Union or national flags, changes nothing in this context. For us, of course, this is unacceptable.”

“Russia and the United States have agreed to restore their embassies in Moscow and Washington to previous staffing levels to facilitate continued diplomatic engagement. We will need active work of diplomatic missions capable of functioning normally to be able to continue these contacts.”

“Ukraine, Europe in a broad sense - and this includes the European Union, Turkiye, and the UK - should be involved in conversations and the development of the necessary security guarantees with America regarding the fate of our part of the world.”

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