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I did play [golf] seriously. And I played at the British amateur Open at Litchfield sometime in the 1980s. I missed the cut by one, ... and then I went to study in the US with the dream of becoming a professional. But I basically quit after three months and got serious about studying.”
We in Finland understand not to trust Putin. Don’t underestimate his capacity to delay. But we need to call his bluff. It’s typically Russian to say, ‘yes, Mr President, there’s a ceasefire’. And after that, say, ‘but the conditions are …’ That’s not the way in which I think we should negotiate with the Russians. The only thing they understand is power.”
I don’t exclude that some of the monitoring is done by Americans and American technology, because it’s non-military activity. So, there’s so many ways in which you can do this.”
Anyone who says that a referendum that has been conducted in the Crimean peninsula is somehow valid doesn’t know what international relations means. We fundamentally disagree with that approach. I personally will never, ever recognise any territorial acquisition by Russia to Ukraine.”
It’s a good, good, good, good way of spending the better part of seven hours together with the president. So we had breakfast, and then we had a go round the course, and then we had lunch, and we had sitting with Lindsey Graham there, and then we had legendary Gary Player, the South African grand slam winner, at the tender age of 89. It is a good way to get to know one another.”
I think it would be quite a useful combination at this moment to get a deadline from the president of the United States with a sanctions package coming from the Senate.”
We think that the core of this war is about the triangular existence of a nation state, which is independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity,
A ceasefire is about monitoring the line of contact and can entail some kind of coalition of the willing in the air, sea, and then also in land,
When you spend seven hours with someone, you at least get an intuition of the direction in which we’re going,
Anyway, for sure I prefer a golf course to meeting rooms,
The presidents met over breakfast, played a round of golf and had lunch together,
the Finnish presidency said in a statement I met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Florida on Saturday 29 March. During the visit, we discussed relations between Finland and the US and current foreign policy issues, including Ukraine,
Stubb wrote on X (Twitter), posting a photo of him and Trump with golf clubs President Stubb and I look forward to strengthening the partnership between the United States and Finland, and that includes the purchase and development of a large number of badly needed Icebreakers for the U.S., delivering Peace and International Security for our Countries, and the World,
Trump said in a post his on Truth Social social media site
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