‘It’s A Fairly Routine Event’: State Dept Spokesperson Responds To Upcoming Trump-Netanyahu Meeting

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During a press briefing on Tuesday, State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller answered reporter questions on the upcoming meeting between former President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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00:00ceasefire.

00:01Yeah.

00:02Yeah.

00:03Thanks.

00:04Donald Trump's confirmed that Netanyahu is going to go to Mar-a-Lago tomorrow.

00:10Do you have any concerns that this meeting is happening ahead of his Congress address

00:15and also meeting with the President, and have one more after that?

00:21I don't.

00:22Look, obviously, we have one president at a time, and I think it's always important

00:25that everyone remember that.

00:26But at the same time, it's fairly common that heads of state and heads of government

00:32in foreign countries meet with political parties while they're here in the United States and

00:36meet with nominees for president while they're here in the United States, and we do the same

00:40thing.

00:41The Secretary has met with opposition leaders and opposition candidates a number of times

00:45in his visits around the world, so that in itself is a fairly routine event, both on

00:51behalf of other countries and on behalf of the United States.

00:54And one, just going back to the region, there's a report about this – it's described as

00:58a secret meeting with the UAE about the Gaza Day After Plan, and the report – the reporting

01:06is that State Department Counselor Tom Sullivan attended.

01:09Can you confirm whether that meeting took place?

01:11And if yes, whether you can give us any more information about it?

01:16So that did – meeting did take place.

01:18Tom Sullivan was in the UAE at the end of last week to advance our plans around a ceasefire

01:24and advance our plans around the day after.

01:27But as often happens – I know people portray these meetings as secret, but oftentimes these

01:33meetings involve pretty delicate, sensitive discussions and sensitive negotiations, and

01:39there's a reason we don't make the topics of those discussions public, and I think I

01:44will decline to do so here.

01:46Just one more, because there's an op-ed coming from the Emiratis as well.

01:51Their special envoy wrote about this.

01:55She said that the plan involves deploying a temporary international mission to Gaza.

02:02Can you comment at all on whether that's accurate or –

02:05No, I have not read the op-ed that you're referring to.

02:09Obviously, we have been in discussions with our partners about what security inside Gaza

02:14would look like both during a ceasefire and at the end of the conflict, but I don't

02:20want to comment on the particulars of those discussions from here.

02:23Just a follow-up on that?

02:25Yeah, go ahead.

‘It’s A Fairly Routine Event’: State Dept Spokesperson Responds To Upcoming Trump-Netanyahu Meeting

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