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'The Ball Is Truly In Their Court': Rubio Says Onus To Accept Ceasefire Deal On Russia
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3/12/2025
Speaking to reporters in Shannon, Ireland, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Russia must now accept the ceasefire deal with Ukraine.
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response officially? And are they willing to accept the ceasefire unconditionally?
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Well, I mean, we don't know the answer to the last question. That's what we want to know,
00:08
whether they're prepared to do it unconditionally. We'll have contact with them today. There's
00:12
already been contacts at different levels with counterparts, different members of the
00:16
administration, and that'll continue. But as far as the Russian reaction to it, that's really the
00:23
question here. And that is, you know, this is a few hours old. We're going to bring it to them
00:28
directly. We're going to say that Ukraine is prepared to stop all battlefield activity and
00:34
begin the immediate process of negotiating a enduring end to the war. And we'll see what
00:39
their response is. If their response is yes, then we know we've made real progress and there's a
00:43
real chance of peace. If their response is no, it would be highly unfortunate and it would make
00:48
their intentions clear. So that's what we're hoping to hear from them. And obviously, as I
00:53
said, this was not prearranged for them. So they're probably processing the news the same
00:59
as the rest of the world is. So we hope to have a positive answer from them. The ball
01:02
is truly in their court.
01:05
Nike Chun with Voice of America. What would be a good G7 joint statement on Russia and on China?
01:14
Well, I think the perfect statement would be that the United States has done a good thing for the
01:18
world in bringing this process forward. And now we all eagerly await the Russian response and
01:26
urge them strongly to consider ending all hostilities so people will stop dying, so
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bullets will stop flying, and so a process can begin to find a permanent peace. I think the
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first step in all this is the acceptance that there is no military solution to this conflict.
01:40
Neither side can militarily achieve their maximalist gains, their maximalist goals.
01:45
Neither side can achieve them through the military side. The only way this conflict can end
01:50
is through negotiation. That's the only way you're going to have peace, is through negotiation.
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And so we need to start that process. And it is hard to start a process when people are
01:58
shooting at each other and people are dying. And so our hope is that we can stop that,
02:03
all these hostilities, and get to a negotiating table where both sides over some period of time
02:09
with a lot of hard work can find a mutually acceptable outcome that, in the case of Ukraine,
02:14
obviously secures their long-term prosperity and security.
02:17
Q Mr. Secretary, could you just update us on Mr. Whitkoff's plans for Moscow and whether he'll
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be meeting with President Putin? And then separately, if you wouldn't mind elaborating
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on something that Mr. Waltz said yesterday about the specifics that you discussed with the Ukrainians
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about what the end of the war would look like. You had mentioned we're not going to get maps
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out and draw lines, but did you actually talk about territorial concessions?
02:38
SECRETARY POMPEO We had conversations. As far as Steve's trip,
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I'm not here to – I can't – I'm not going to make any announcements about specific dates,
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times, or even confirm such a trip. Suffice it to say there's going to be
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multiple points of contact with the Russians to gauge are they willing to do this or not.
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And as far as the conversations that were yesterday, yeah, when you sit down with a
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counterpart like Ukraine, we're not going to negotiate this publicly. We're not going to
03:05
actually put out there sort of what we talked about, because in any negotiation there's certainly
03:10
an element where you don't want one side to be giving away all this leverage from a public
03:14
perspective. We had a broad conversation about what it would – but I think the bulk of our
03:20
conversation was what a negotiation process would look like in terms of not the specific conditions
03:26
but rather the timing of it, sort of the steps they would like to see taken. The Ukrainians
03:30
made very clear that this isn't just about ending a war. They need to get their prisoners of war
03:34
back. They need to get the children back. They'd like to see an exchange of prisoners of war.
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They'd like to see their children back. So there's all sorts of things tied to the humanitarian
03:44
assistance is important as well. There are areas of Ukraine that have been badly damaged that require
03:49
immediate assistance. So these are the sorts of things that we talked about as being inclusive
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in the negotiation process. So really, the bulk of our conversation when we got to that stage of it
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was discussing the kinds of items that need to be on a new negotiation agenda
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even when we hopefully get there.
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He also mentioned security guarantees, which is something that there has been some reluctance for
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the administration to elaborate on. Are you committing to security guarantees?
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Well, I think the point – no, the point to understand is that we're looking at is securing
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their long-term – what we want to see, like any country in the world, Ukraine wants their
04:20
long-term security. They want to make sure that this doesn't happen, and we all do.
04:24
What is the point of spending all this time to get a ceasefire hopefully and then a negotiated
04:29
end to the war only to see it re-spark up again in about six years, four years, three years? No
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one's – we're not interested in that, and they certainly aren't either. So I think the question
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really is more about a deterrence. Can Ukraine create a sufficient deterrent against future
04:44
aggression, against future attack, against future invasion? Because every country in the world has
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a right to defend themselves, and no one can dispute that. So that will most certainly have
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to be part of the conversation. But again, I don't think there's – there isn't a peace to secure
04:57
until you have a peace. But there's no way to have an enduring peace without the deterrence
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peace being a part of it. Can I just follow up on that? Yes. Because the joint statement talks
05:07
about European partners being involved in the peace process, but that's only attributed to the
05:12
Ukrainian delegation. There doesn't appear to be U.S. support for that line. Well, I think what
05:16
it says in the statement is that they raised the need for the Europeans. But I've already said
05:20
publicly the Europeans have issued a series of sanctions against the Russian Federation,
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and I would imagine that in any negotiation, if we get there hopefully with the Russians,
05:29
that they will raise these European – the European sanctions that have been imposed upon
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them. So I think that the issue of European sanctions are going to be on the table, not to
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mention what happens with the frozen assets and the like. And so I think it's self-evident that
05:44
for there to be a peace in Ukraine, at the end of that process there's going to have to be some
05:51
decision made by the Europeans about what they're going to do with these sanctions and so forth.
05:56
And so that's why I think they have to be necessarily involved in this regard.
05:59
Now, whether they're involved at the front end of it or at the back end of it, it'll have to
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play itself out. And then obviously there's also all sorts of security promises that European
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countries have made to Ukraine, that that will also be, I imagine, a part of this conversation
06:13
as we move forward. So we don't disagree with that statement. I think the statement just reflects
06:17
that they raised it. Do you back European peacekeepers in Ukraine, which is something
06:21
Russia is categorizing? Well, we'll see. I mean, there's different ways to construct a deterrent
06:28
on the ground that prevents another war from starting in the future. We're not going to go
06:32
in with any sort of preconceived notion. The bottom line is it needs to be something that
06:37
makes Ukraine feel as if they can deter and prevent a future invasion. How that looks and
06:42
how that's put together, that's what we're going to be talking about. If we can get to that stage.
06:46
Again, right now we're just trying to get to the stage where there's actual
06:49
diplomacy happening. Here's what we'd like the world to look like in a few days.
06:53
Neither side is shooting at each other, not rockets, not missiles, not bullets,
06:57
nothing, not artillery. The shooting stops, the fighting stops, and the talking starts.
07:02
That's what we want to see. What happens during that talking and how that evolves,
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I think we're going to have to be flexible and nimble and creative and patient and work hard
07:10
at it and hopefully turn it into something that's concrete. You've covered – many of you have
07:15
covered foreign policy for years. That's how these things happen, and they're not easy,
07:19
and sometimes they're difficult to predict which way they're going to go in terms of
07:22
the specifics of it. But we just want to get to that stage. That would be, for lack of a better
07:28
term, a good problem to have, to have to figure out how to negotiate a peace because we're actually
07:32
negotiating a peace while the shooting has stopped.
07:35
Is the mineral deal essentially the security guarantee that you
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