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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said security guarantees for Ukraine are a fundamental basis for any future peace talks, speaking as leaders gathered in The Hague for a summit focused on compensation for Ukraine. The remarks came as senior European officials, including the European Union Council Secretary General and the Dutch foreign minister, arrived for discussions on accountability, reconstruction, and long-term support for Ukraine amid the ongoing war. The summit highlights growing European efforts to address war damages, security assurances, and diplomatic pathways toward ending the conflict.
00:00Good morning, everyone. Good morning. It's a great pleasure for me to have this occasion to meet you this morning at The Hague.
00:14As you know, we have today a very important day for accountability, for reparations for Ukraine.
00:20We are establishing this morning the claims commission.
00:23This is a very important step after the register of damage created by the Council of Europe after the summit of the head of state and head of government in Reykjavik 23.
00:35Now we have a very strong situation with more than 86,000 damages registered in the register,
00:42and we need to make the next step to make sure that there will be accountability and reparations for damages in the context of the war in Ukraine.
00:53The money can come from different sources, from the states, from the frozen assets, from the Russian frozen assets, and also from maybe other sources.
01:04It will be an important discussion because it will cost a lot, but as I was telling you before,
01:10it will be part of the long-term, of all the work for the reparation and for the reconstruction.
01:16I would expect that to take.
01:18I would expect that to take.
01:19I would expect that to take.
01:51Good morning. We can do it quietly. I have the time.
02:21But then we have to see if Russia, if Putin really wants peace. And we will see that in the coming days.
02:28It is quite normal that talks about reparation are being held after the war.
02:39But first we have to make sure that we get a ceasefire and just a lasting peace.
02:44And then it is quite normal that with the aggression you talk about reparation loans and about restoring the country.
02:49And that's also part of the discussion we have in the EU when it comes to the so-called frozen assets.
02:55They are frozen because they are also meant to be for restoring and rebuilding Ukraine.
03:19So accountability in general is a crucial part of the end of any conflict.
03:30Without accountability a conflict cannot be fully resolved.
03:33And part of that accountability is also paying in damages that have been done.
03:40So I think it's a big step today that we now are establishing a claims commission that we're signing a treaty on that on the suspicion of the Council of Europe to make a start here and make a clear statement that we are taking these claims seriously.
03:54That we are registering them to be repaid in a later stage.
03:57On the way of reparation and which assets will be used at which point in time, that's to be decided in a later stage and should also be part of any agreement that is to be reached between the parties here.
04:16And I think Ukraine is in the lead when it comes down to negotiating those modalities in alignment with the EU, the US and Russia of course.
04:27And I think Ukraine is in the lead when it comes down to negotiating those modalities in the EU, the US and Russia of the United States of the United States of the United States of the United States of the United States of the United States of the United States.
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