Foreign Pool Report #5 - Norwegian PM in the Oval
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- Fouad Youcefi
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- Thursday, April 24, 2025, 2:35 PM
Some 40 people from the pool and the Norwegian press was ushered into the Oval Office at 1.55 PM for a presser that lasted around 28 minutes. It was carried live.
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St�re was flanked by Jens Stoltenberg, Finance Minister of Norway, Anniken Huitfeldt, Norway Ambassador to the United States and others. Trump was flanked by Sec of State Rubio, Sec of Treasury Bessent and others.
Jonas Gahr St�re said in his remarks that it is 200 years since the first Norwegians immigrated to the US.
"We are allies. We look after security in the north, in the Arctic."
They spoke in "detail" about Ukraine, and they "exchanged ideas" on how to end the war.
Jonas Gahr St�re took questions about several topics, and Stoltenberg also spoke.
Some quotes on Ukraine:
"To move towards an end of this war, US engagement is critical, and President Trump made that possible. That is clear"
"Both parties have to know that they have to deliver, and they have to feel the pressure to deliver Ukraine is under attack. They are defending themselves. Lives are being lost, and we believe very firmly that there needs to be a ceasefire initiative taken by the US some time ago, needs to be respected and then to move on to something which both parties can own. That is the complicated part in such a dramatic war."
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