Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani on Israel:

After the 8th of December, more than 1,000 airstrikes hit Syria, targeting civilian and military sites.

New Syrian territories were occupied, Syrian citizens were detained by Israel, and more than 500 land incursions were conducted.

Since day one, the Syrian state has wanted to deal realistically with Israel. We said that we want to focus on reconstruction. We want recovery first, and then development.

But perhaps Israel did not welcome that approach, as it appeared to be looking for side conflicts in the region. We rejected that path. We remained patient and chose negotiations.

With the support of the United States, we managed to bring Israel to direct negotiations.

The goal of these negotiations, as we see it, is Israel’s withdrawal from the territories it occupied after the 8th of December, preventing Israel from violating Syrian airspace, and ensuring that there are no further incursions into Syrian territory.

These are our demands.

Israel is overreacting to perceived threats, and I believe this is the wrong policy. In fact, such policies may become the gravest threat to Israel itself, rather than the threats it perceives from others.

I do not believe Israel can ignore the realistic approach Syria is following. President Trump and the United States are supporting this approach and mediating this dialogue.

Senator Jeanne Shaheen on Syria:

Are there going to be mistakes? Of course there will be mistakes.

I just finished watching The American Revolution, which is a documentary in the United States about our fight for independence. There were all kinds of mistakes made in the early days of the United States.

We continue to make mistakes.

But the important thing about democracies — the important thing about stable societies — is that we are able to correct those mistakes, to provide accountability and justice when mistakes are made, and to move forward in a positive way.

And that is what I think we want for Syria and for the entire Middle East region.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani:

We do not see the SDF as enemies. We see them as partners.

WATCH: Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system misses a Ukrainian kamikaze drone at nearly point-blank range, after which the drone strikes and destroys the system.

Zelensky:

Investors say they need guarantees that would be longer than 5, 10 years, etc.

Today we have a proposal from the American side for 15 years.

We want to have 20 years plus. 30, 50...

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

Since I became Prime Minister, Spain has tripled its defense spending and has doubled the number of soldiers deployed in NATO missions.

We need, of course, to ensure our sovereignty, our territorial integrity, and our security.

But I strongly believe that nuclear rearmament is not the right way of doing it.

Journalist:

Are you worried that Putin might try to use this kind of poisoning against you, and what needs to be done by the West to deter Vladimir Putin from poisoning his enemies?

Zelensky:

I’m not thinking about myself. So I’m one of all the people in Ukraine who are in Ukraine.

So I can’t think about Vladimir Putin and about his poison ambitions, if he has them. I don’t know, but he had.

I can’t think about it because otherwise I will think only about it. But I don’t have time for it.

They attack us with, you see, hundreds and hundreds of drones and missiles. What is the difference between poison and missile? I don’t see the difference.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

Experts estimate that the US alone will invest $946 billion in nukes over the next decade — enough to eradicate extreme global poverty.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

I beg you: prevent the launch of a new arms race while it is possible.

Humanity will be forever grateful if you do, and it will heavily judge you if you don’t.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

We need to stop Putin. We need to strengthen our deterrence capabilities. But let us do it in a coordinated and targeted way that we can control.

Let’s build a true European Army — not in 10 years, but now. Spain will join with all the resources that are needed.

Let’s strengthen our multilateral system, reforming and empowering those institutions that, despite their flaws, have succeeded in maintaining peace in the West for decades.

And also let’s invest in the values of solidarity, empathy, and cooperation that have brought us this far, because the rearmament that we most urgently need in the world is a moral one.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

What we have to do is to strengthen the European defense industry.

And that means that, paradoxically, if we agree with this idea of 5%, at the end of the day we will become more dependent on the US defense industry.

Zelensky:

I think they never had another goal than occupation of Ukraine. Minimum what they want: Donbas, the Donetsk region 100%, to sell this like a victory to their society.

This is victory for himself. I’m not sure he thinks how to sell something to his society — he can sell everything, he did it for 30 years.

That’s why we can’t withdraw from our territory or exchange one piece for another. It’s a little bit crazy. Sorry.

This is not just land. 200,000 people there. Hundreds of thousands killed there, especially in Donbas.

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen:

If one NATO country attacks another NATO country, then NATO ends.

It’s game over.

Zelensky on Taurus missile:

About Taurus, there is no decision from Germany.

I’ll be honest. I have to find balance in dialogue, what to choose. I can’t choose everything.

I want everything during the war, but I can’t. I have to choose what I can get now.

— You still need Taurus?
+ Yes.

Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen on Greenland:

Unfortunately the crisis has not passed. I think the desire from Trump is exactly the same.

He is very serious about this theme. And as you know, I disagree with him.

Q: Can you put a price on Greenland?

Denmark’s PM Frederiksen: Of course not. Can you put a price on a part of Spain, or a part of the US, or a part of anywhere else in the world?

Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen on Greenland:

The Greenlandic people have been very clear. They don’t want to become Americans.

They want to stay Greenlandic people. And I, of course, support them in that.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom:

Donald Trump is not only temporary, but he may be among the most un-American presidents ever to have resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

He’s an invasive species. He’s taken over the Republican Party. Ronald Reagan would be ashamed of this moment in time.

Those values are being vandalized in real time. Our republic is being vandalized in real time.

Every day, we’re fighting the fight to save our republic.