Sec. Marco Rubio Claims That Russia Will Have To Make Concessions In Negotiations With Ukraine

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During Friday’s press conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the need to make concessions in order to establish peace between Russia and Ukraine.

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00:00Mr. Secretary, there was a report that was required of the State Department as one of

00:04the first executive orders asking for countries to be identified that had insufficient vetting.

00:10Has that report gone over to the White House yet?

00:13I'm sure, you mean we had a deadline to meet that?

00:16I'm sure we've met the deadline, but I have to take that back and we can get you an answer

00:20for that specifically.

00:21Is there an offer for the trade war, Mr. Secretary?

00:22Can I just follow up about territorial integrity?

00:23About what?

00:24Territorial integrity.

00:25Yeah, you already asked that, yeah.

00:26Yeah, so you said that Ukraine would have to make concessions both sides.

00:31So will Russia.

00:32Right.

00:33What is your description of territorial integrity when it comes to Ukraine?

00:36Guys, again, that's what we're going to have, let's please, I get it, but let me just put

00:41it to you this way.

00:42There's two processes here.

00:44Process number one is how can we get shooting to stop because we think it's very difficult

00:48to negotiate peace while there's still shooting going on and attacks.

00:52What can we do to get that to stop to the extent possible?

00:56How can we get as much hostility as possible to stop so we can get to phase two of this

00:59process which is negotiating these things that you're asking me about?

01:03I'm just stating the obvious.

01:04When people sit down and negotiate an end to wars, there's usually a give and take.

01:09What that give and take is depends on the parties that are at the table.

01:12We're not going to predetermine anything, but that's what it's going to take to end

01:15the war.

01:16If there's an off-ramp on the trade, it's not about an off-ramp on the trade, there's

01:19not a trade war.

01:20This is the United States is resetting its trade relations globally and resetting relations

01:26globally to a level of equilibrium, to a level of reciprocity.

01:33Once that's reset, we can then engage in the process of bilateral talks with Japan, with

01:39the UK, with France, with Germany, with the EU, whoever, to figure out how do we reset

01:44our trade relations so that it's fair because right now it's not fair.

01:47It's as simple as that.

01:49The President has stated that repeatedly.

01:51These are the steps that it takes to get us to that point.

01:55If you do it the other way, which is let's renegotiate, why would they renegotiate their

02:00trade relationship with the United States if the status quo was beneficial to them?

02:03Why would someone give up something that's good for them?

02:06You have to make it fair and then you can negotiate out how do we get to a place that's

02:10mutually beneficial because the current piece of it is just not sustainable.

02:16Thank you guys.

02:19Thank you, sir.

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