Minister says govt is ‘absolutely focussed on’ de-escalation

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Energy minister Miatta Fahnbulleh says the government is “absolutely focussed on” trying to stop military escalation between Iran and Israel, insisting “every lever” is being used to deliver the objective. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The first thing I'd say is that this is a really serious situation.

00:04It is very volatile. It is fast-moving.

00:06And the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary are monitoring it incredibly closely.

00:11They are calibrating our response minute by minute, day by day.

00:16But what I would say is that we've been really clear that our priority is to de-escalate,

00:21to try and get people around the negotiating table so that we can find a diplomatic solution to this.

00:26And so every call that the Prime Minister makes, every lever that the UK government have,

00:30our influence is being used to deliver that objective.

00:33But unless you have governments like ours who are absolutely focused on diplomacy and achieving that outcome,

00:39we will not get there.

00:41And so that is our objective. That is what we're focusing on.

00:44And candidly, war is not good for any part of the country, of the world.

00:50This will have an impact on the Middle East and in the end civilians that get caught in that crossfire.

00:56But it also has reverberations across the globe.

00:58So the priority has to be stopping that escalation.

01:02And that is what we are absolutely focused on.

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