The peninsula to ukraine. There is a clear path to restoring peace in eastern ukraine. A full and immediate implementation of the agreements which the United States continues to support. The mensk agreements. The un ambassador to the United Nations, sounding just as an ambassador traditionally does. Now, its confusing to mr trumps opponents, he is destabilising. I suspect that for his supporters, there is craft in the chaos the new president is unpredictable and going to have everyone yielding to him. Heres our diplomatic editor, mark urban. The National Prayer breakfast is a washington institution. A chance for politicians, movers and shakers to commune with the almighty. A chance also for President Trump to exhort them to keep the faith. When you hear about the tough phone calls im having, dont worry about it. Just dont worry. They are tough, we have to be tough, its time we have to be a little tough, folks, we are taken advantage of by every nation in the world, virtually. It is not
Long term . I can remember arriving in rio to see the saudi text with the entire text of the Framework Convention in brackets. And i know that theres still a concern that russia has been difficult to deal with on this issue for many years. But i dont want to answer the question. What is the where are the big challenges, do you think . Yeah, well so, theres two different ways to anxious that question. If you mean in the context of the Ongoing International negotiations thats kind of the i guess i mean both, the negotiations and the real world on the ground. Okay. So, with respect to negotiations, the short answer is i dont think we know yet. I think that there i mean, going into these negotiations there were various groupings of countries who were at least from our point of view and from the point of view of any number of countries who were seeking a certain kind of agreement were challenging. But we have an agreement that was met with kind of extraordinarily broad claim. I mean, even i
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