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The largest humanitarian prisoner exchange of the Ukraine war was agreed during talks in Abu Dhabi, said US special envoy for peace Jared Kushner on Wednesday (Nov 11) and he added that their delegation will travel to Moscow on Nov 12 and meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for further talks.

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00:00This war has gone on for a long time. It's been a huge time.
00:04Thank you very much.
00:05Thank you, Pastor.
00:08Belief and trust in the UAE.
00:10I really appreciate the courage and the leadership that everyone here is showing to come here.
00:14We've made some great progress in the past in a military-to-military dialogue in a trilateral format.
00:20Jared, just all the time, we were in very productive discussions for the last, almost a year.
00:27Thank you, Pastor, and especially in thinking and our coordinations.
00:53One of the positives is we agreed that we're going to have the biggest humanitarian release
00:58of prisoners, which we're going to finalize the numbers tomorrow.
01:01Steve and I are going to travel to Moscow tomorrow to meet with President Putin to go over what
01:07was discussed today and try to make more progress on some of the issues that we discussed, because
01:13we see some openings and some opportunities there.
01:17After that, we're going to fly to Dublin, and we're going to be with President Zelenskyy
01:20to debrief with him and further explore some of the ideas that we came up with here today.
01:27We also discussed the hard issues.
01:29No issues weren't discussed that are open.
01:31The territorial issues, which will be the hardest.
01:35But we do believe that, as we discuss these other issues, we'll find a pathway to settle
01:39them all at the same time.
01:41I think that having these discussions is very important, but the implementation of post-war
01:46security will not occur until there's an agreement on territory and on all other bilateral issues.
01:53One of the goals of the meeting to Moscow, in addition to trying to finalize the humanitarian
02:01relief and the release of prisoners and other humanitarian issues that we're working on together,
02:06is going to be to try and see if we can get the Europeans added to the format so that
02:11we can make this a multilateral format.
02:13At the beginning and the end of these sessions and constantly during, we had very good interactions
02:18and discussions with our European partners.
02:21We had here the EU, we had NATO, we had the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, and France,
02:28and we were very, very united in all the discussions that we've had.
02:32I think that we are working towards the final goal where it should be not trilateral, it should
02:38be multilateral, because Europeans have to sit at the table, because if we're talking about
02:44European post-war security, Ukraine is part of Europe, and European countries have to sit
02:50on the table together with us and discuss how the security in Europe will look like.
02:55The other issues that we cannot disclose at the moment, but we've got a really big progress,
03:00and I encourage you guys to visit Moscow and then come back to us, to Dublin, and then
03:06have a second session and set the date and announce the date for the next session as soon
03:11as possible, because I think that we have a good momentum to bring the solution before
03:17the new year comes.
03:17Is it time for Zelensky to meet Putin face-to-face?
03:26So I think it'd be great if they did that.
03:28The reality is, is there's no trust right now between the sides, and that's to be expected
03:32after a conflict like this, but we should rely on interests and incentives and a good architecture
03:38in order to do that.
03:39Thank you so much.

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