US-Iran talks under way in Switzerland with the mediation of Pakistan, Qatar

[00:00:00]ISIS >> at this point in time with uh full sincerity at my domain.

[00:00:07]Thank President Donald Trump for his visionary and very dynamic leadership which has uh resulted in this meeting here today in beautiful city of Bergentock. And I think uh here we are going to have wonderful discussions which will lead to hopefully very productive results in times to come. I'd like to thank Vice President Jerry Van for his uh very able leadership in leading United States team and my very dear brother prime minister of Qatar.

[00:00:44]He's like a very real and dear brother and of course field marshal Sasuner his outstanding role very consistent and he showed huge amount of perseverance and patience and I think together all these efforts have culminated here in this wonderful Shonus Bergen and it's really very wonderful to be be here and hopefully when we go back to our homes we'll have some wonderful paper in our hand which will promote peace, progress and prosperity around the globe. Thank you very much.

[00:01:28]>> Thank you vice president. You would like to say a few words?

[00:01:31]>> Thank you prime minister. Wonderful.

[00:01:33]>> Well I'll I'll say a just a few words here and first of all I have some notes of appreciation. And first of all, I want to thank the president of the United States who sends his best to all the great leaders assembled here because he's empowered us to find a diplomatic resolution to a host of issues that matter to the American people, but I think the world. The opening of the Straight of Hormuse, the ending of the Iranian nuclear program, all of these things have already been accomplished.

[00:01:57]The question before us now is how much more can we accomplish together? Can we turn over a new leaf? Can we change relations in the Middle East permanently? or do we go back to doing things the old way which is not our preference but is certainly uh very much something that can happen. I have a few other notes of appreciation. First of all to the prime minister of Pakistan dear friend of the presidents a dear friend of mine a guy who has been with his leadership and is very careful and skilled negotiation has got us to to this point. uh to his field marshal in Pakistan, Aim Maner. I will say that since field marshal maner welcomed us with the prime minister in Islamabad, I have joked that I have two very very important people in my life, an Indian and a Pakistani. The Indian is my wife and the Pakistani is Field Marshall Maner. And I've probably talked to Field Marshall Maner more than I've talked to anybody else over the last three months.

[00:02:50]We would not be here without his statesmanship. He is of course great military leader, but I think he shown himself to be a great diplomat and of course who's an amazing friend of the United States of America, but has been also an important part of getting us to this point. I I think it's it's important for the American people, but people all over the world to appreciate that what's brought us to this moment is the president's leadership and the president's willingness to see a Middle East that is much different 10 years from now than it was 10 years ago. And what we're trying to accomplish here is something very simple. Through diplomacy, through working together to transform the Middle East, where Iran and the Gulf have been at war with each other, or at least have had very unfriendly relations, where Iran has been a driver of regional instability.

[00:03:39]Now, we see a future where everybody can work together to promote peace and prosperity for everyone. What we have already seen in back home in the United States is lower gas prices. We've seen the free flow of oil and gas. We've seen peace. And now we're trying to build on that to see if we can build something even better and more sustainable for the future. This is a historic meeting.

[00:04:04]Never before outside of Islamabad and here, so outside the last few months, never before has the Iranian and American leadership met at such a high level. What the president has asked us to do is turn over a new leaf, to transform our relationship with the people of Iran, and to extend an outstretched hand that says to the people of Iran that if your leadership is willing to give up being a driver of regional instability, if they are willing to give up nuclear weapons ambitions for the long term, then the United States is willing to fundamentally transform our relationship with that country. That is certainly our goal. We've already made great progress over just the last few hours and I expect that we'll make additional progress in the hours to come. Thank you all.

[00:04:49]>> Is it possible just one question Mr. the main issue?

[00:04:53]>> Let Muham speak please. First of all I would like to welcome you here Mr. Vice President Mr. Prime Minister your leadership and field marshall leadership actually initiating that process that what brought us here today. I think that every one of you has highlighted how important is this meeting, how historic is that event and how significant is that agreement not only on the security of the region but also for the security of the world and for the global economy. What we have done and what we have achieved, we wouldn't achieve it without the dedication and the hard work that was done by you, Mr. Vice President and Mr. Steve Witkov and Jared Kushner, Prime Minister and Field Marshall and uh also on the Iranian side, Dr. Alib and Dr. I would like to thank all of you for your leadership and determination that put us in this room and this is not uh really uh the main celebration our celebration when we reach the ultimate agreement.

[00:05:59]Hopefully this is just the beginning and I wish everyone all the best. Tatar will stay dedicated to this partnership to support these mediations until the end until we reach a solution. We will always be a partner in bringing more peace, prosperity, and hopefully better future for our region. Thank you very much.

[00:06:19]>> Thank you, Shake. So guys, we'll take just a couple of questions and then um we're going to have to kick out the media and get started with the hard work. Go ahead, >> President. Thank you. Do you have a message for Prime Minister Netanyahu with regard to Israel's military operations in Lebanon? Well, first of all, we've seen great progress over the last just couple of days in ensuring that the ceasefire holds in Lebanon.

[00:06:38]These things are always a little bit messy. If you go back to how much was happening 3 months ago and compare it to 3 weeks ago, great progress has been made. If you go back to 3 weeks ago to 3 days ago, additional progress has been made. The president has committed us to to see a full regional ceasefire. We found great partners in working with the cutteries, the Pakistanis, our friends in Israel. We're all working towards regional peace. There of course are going to be sometimes disagreements about precisely how to get there, but I actually feel great about where we are in Lebanon. There's still some additional wood to chop, but we're going to keep on working at it. I know you had a question over here.

[00:07:14]>> Realistic.

[00:07:14]>> Are you ready to stop genocide in Lebanon? As you know, your um alignment is something like genocide in Lebanon.

[00:07:23]Uh the main issue is stopping this.

[00:07:27]Well, ma'am, I I think that the president of the United States and the United States of America have done more to stop the conflict in Lebanon than any government anywhere in the world over the last few months, and we're going to keep on working towards it. As I think a lot of you appreciate, peace is never easy. Peace always requires a little bit of work. It always requires a little bit of give and take. But the president of the United States is committed not just to peace between the United States and Iran. The president is committed to a regional piece, which is why we're here working so hard to settle our issues.

[00:07:56]The one last comment I want to make is what today really represents is the beginning of a technical negotiation that's not going to solve every disagreement, but is going to allow us to sit together as teams for the first time really in history to figure out what matters most to the respective parties, to settle those issues, to solve those issues, and get to a better tomorrow. The reason why the political leadership of the respective countries is here is because we wanted to first of all set up the structure for these technical negotiations and second of all make sure that our teams have our full support and know they can always call on us to break through any barriers. We got a lot of work to do. We're excited to do it. Thank you all for being here.

[00:08:42]My go.

[00:08:59]>> All right, you're just watching live developments in Bergenstock in central Switzerland. This is all coming from this summit, the Lucern conference as it has been named, where the Americans and the Iranians are coming together. You've just uh heard from the US vice president JD Vance and he was speaking to the mediators, the Pakistani mediator, uh the Qatar mediator. Now, we understand that the Iranian foreign minister Abbasi was also in the room, but interestingly, he wasn't in the frame. So you heard from Pakistan, you heard from Qatar, you heard from the US vice president.