Rutte on Trump:

I think Trump is very important to NATO.

He is totally committed to NATO.

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Rutte:

I don't mind Trump publishing text messages.

Trump:

Just recovered the last Hostage body in GAZA. Thus, got back ALL 20 of the living Hostages, and ALL of the Dead! AMAZING JOB!

Most thought of it as an impossible thing to do. Congratulations to my great team of Champions!!!

Rutte:

If anyone thinks that the EU or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming.

You can’t. We can’t. We need each other.

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CENTCOM:

The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is currently deployed to the Middle East to promote regional security and stability.

Albanian PM Edi Rama at Israel's Knesset:

If Mossad had not yet informed you, I can inform you that my knees are trembling.

I knew that speaking here would feel like a speech delivery exam in front of one of the top five speakers in the world, Prime Minister Netanyahu.

I’ll do my best, dear Bibi, to survive your judgment, fully aware that I am merely the second speaker worldwide after Trump whom you simply cannot avoid listening to.

Rutte on the Arctic:

I really feel Trump deserves some defense; he was the one during Trump 45 who said there was an issue with Arctic security.

And he said it again when he came back into office in January.

I think he is right; there is an issue with security.

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Albanian PM Edi Rama at Israel's Knesset:

During the Holocaust, when the Nazi envoy demanded lists of Jews and their gold, our representatives replied:

‘You can have the gold, not the Jews.’

The gold was theirs to take; the Jews were ours to protect.

That is not legend; that is Albania.

Rutte:

I know that America greatly appreciates all the efforts that have been made in Afghanistan and acknowledges the many casualties of non-American allies.

Trump’s threats over Greenland alarmed U.S. allies and Congress, with some Republican and Democratic lawmakers warning senior officials that any military invasion without congressional approval could prompt an impeachment investigation.

Lawmakers privately urged the administration to back off, fearing Trump was moving toward the use of force without consulting Congress.

Source: Reuters

Albanian PM Edi Rama at Israel's Knesset on Palestine:

They failed to recognize that the jailer of Gaza is Hamas, no one else but Hamas.

Until Hamas is fully dismantled, its two million prisoners will never be truly free and no peace can endure.

I wish that a few of the tunnels of terror Hamas built—where the hostages taken on 7th of October were killed, raped, and tortured—will be preserved as defining testimony in favor of lasting peace among the two future states.

NATO's Rutte:

We are all supportive of a defense industry and that is vital, but it cannot at the moment provide nearly enough of what Ukraine needs to defend itself today and to deter tomorrow.

Please keep Ukraine’s needs first in focus.

We all know that without this flow of weaponry from the US we cannot keep Ukraine in the fight. Literally not.

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Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar on Türkiye:

We had very good relations with Türkiye in the past, but in recent decades we have seen these relations deteriorate.

There is no need for normalization with Türkiye because we already have relations with Türkiye. We have had diplomatic relations with Türkiye for decades.

Unfortunately, in recent times the relations have worsened. This was their choice. I will not speculate here about the reasons. This is simply a fact.

We have no interest in making our relations with Türkiye worse than they already are.

About a month ago, senior officials from both sides met in order to create a mechanism that could be useful in such situations.

In the past, my colleague, the foreign minister of Azerbaijan, conveyed some messages from us to them, but recently this stopped.

I hope that we will reach a different and better future in our relations with Türkiye, but this depends entirely on the Turks.

Source: APA

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen:

I think Europe has shown strength and unity in these past weeks. I am grateful, but I also have to say that this is the only way forward.

We have to build a much stronger Europe. We need to become more self-sufficient, more competitive, and more independent.

Trump:

Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength.

I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession. The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future.

He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I! We have had such tremendous SUCCESS in Washington, D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have “touched” and, even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!

Germany’s Merz on Minnesota:

I find the news we've been getting from the USA in the last few days indeed worrying. And it's obviously always one region or one city that is affected.

I assume that the American authorities will now really clarify whether it was necessary to shoot here, whether there really was a threat to the officers involved.

In any case, I have to say I find this level of use of violence in the USA worrying, to put it that way.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen:

I think, or I hope, that all Europeans can now see that it was a huge mistake to be dependent on Russian fossil fuels. We should never have been.

And now we have to make sure that we will have no dependencies on other countries outside Europe, not only in energy but in everything.

Netanyahu:

Albania understands Israel, just as Israel understands Albania.

Small states are tested daily on their very existence — on what I call the safeguarding of life itself.

Existence comes before everything else.

Netanyahu:

History proves that if human evil is not stopped in time, it will spread and in the end it will threaten all nations and all continents.

Netanyahu on Gaza:

What is the next stage? The next stage is the dismantling of Hamas and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu:

Any attempt by Iran to harm us will be met with a decisive response.

It would be a very grave mistake — one mistake too many.