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I’ll be going there and we expect to see each other in the near future – we’ll be announcing it,
I can only say that it would be... a pleasure to extend that invitation once again, in the hope that you... some stage be visiting Turnberry [one of Mr Trump’s golf courses] and a detour to a relatively near neighbour might not cause you too much inconvenience
The letter – which could only partly be read – stated The first contact with the new US administration gives some hope
Speaking in Moscow yesterday, he revealed This deal has many complications to it that will make it exceedingly difficult for the US to get the benefits out of it that are being portrayed,
Based on what we do know, the vast majority of the deposits appear to be in Russian-controlled territory,
said a second former senior Biden official familiar with the assessments Of course, the US would protect our assets, for which we are invested in,
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Fox News in a Monday interview If we zoom out, on a global scale it’s not a ton,
said Jack Conness, a senior analyst at Energy Innovation There’s nothing wrong with the US doing a deal,
Let me just say that I’m not aware of a single US company that was clamoring to get into the mining business in Ukraine,
the former official added It just wasn’t taken as something that was at all realistic,
said a former senior Biden administration official From Zelensky’s perspective what else can he offer the US or the West?”
asked the second senior Biden administration official It’s an important political undertaking that binds the two countries together,
a senior US official said We’ll be dig, dig, digging,
Trump told reporters on the eve of Zelensky’s visit You never know when it comes to that. You know you dig and maybe things aren’t there like you think they’re there,
For me and for all of us in the world, it is important that American aid is not halted. Strength is needed on the path to peace,
I'm not going to make security guarantees beyond-very much. We're going to have Europe do that,
Trump said, without elaborating NATO — you can forget about it."
However, Trump earlier brushed aside Ukraine's aspirations of joining the Atlantic defense alliance, saying So far, there are no official statements on this matter. We have only heard that Zelensky seemed to be going to Washington on Friday,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said It creates obligations to cooperate, but it does not have any binding specific commitments of a defence nature. That is exactly what we see in this agreement. The U.S. has not given concrete assurances,
There is at least in principle interesting political support for that process,
he said, amid Washington's increasingly antagonistic stance towards the EU
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