lease throughout this past year and a half when it comes to dealing with your credit. so many other issues. so i don't live with that. let me turn it over to you. i guess we'll also have the pleasure of spending the week together in new york. you in general assembly so thank you very much and thank you very much for the warm welcome. today and also and yesterday evening i will speak in german also for the gym and media minus. then you have some dante, ladies and gentlemen, in deutsche, i'm returning with the german american relations. it's a bit like with good findings, some who have some guy. it's not, not just about picking up the phone and speaking, but it's about feeling that you have really close ties and particularly when you can't speak to one another just to know that the other party is there and that you can rely on them. a 100 percent and you can type and in these difficult times, side and administration has contributions to this. but it is particularly the

relationship we have between the chancellor's office and us presidents awards button on terms of the close cooperation that we have as well as between us too. and so i want to thank tony blinking so i'm very much for that. i'm going to assign to how you could also say that you have narrowed the gap across the atlantic and the last year and a half. we have experienced again and again that we are not divided by notions. but rather that we are connected to jobs have in visiting texas recently. and i had a sense that it's really worth making every effort we can to invest in this friendship to invest in the diversity by behind this friendship. because there's so many different people there. and that's where the strength of our democracy lies. investing in our friendship is something i admit, we have been forced to do as germans very early on. when i did ski not lot,

just export hipster novit when to be n b a. but as we can see, the 50 you invest early on, it didn't damages, and we can see the semi final, the final last week. knock me off in an hour, but we have other ties as well. i'm fluent and one thing is for sure we stand for our security in liberty of appeal and instantly the doors as your plans and does the germans have to long taken out on security too likely. but these times go on forever. more in germany, we have flip the switch or 100000000000 years of being invested on top of the usual budget before our german onforce is the going to say are our allies, 2nd count on us a lot respiration to present g d p is something we've all promised to nato mentioned in the we've also promised to do and to help people in ukraine. we just,

we support the detailing ukraine and we will support ukraine as long as it's necessary noise. but i'm not happy for a year and a half now puts in has is on the wrong track. if he believes that at some point, you're one or the us or the entire world tribunal will get use of is more because there are other issues that are in the foreground, but no. right. and our transatlantic alliance mesh. and indeed, no one on the planet time, i'm just can never get used to a brutal, more of aggression, the desktop of these, of a, because every country in this world, nearly every country anyway knows that this would be a risk for our own security. you know, doesn't mean, and we also see that there's no one on the, on the planet who can get used to it and, and conceivable suffering. good. that is inflicted on people, not just in the trenches in ukraine, but in every individual,

the village where the russian neutral just as being the children are taken away from their parents. that is not something we can ever get used to. it's not, we're not normal. that villagers are tortured in coal sellers of a 2 or 3. that's not something that we will ever get used to. that's the name of it at all. and the 2 of us have always made it clear that a war is not just an abstract numbers. and preserving territorial integrity and so for entity rather i know that i mean every single person is behind the numbers of victims for the combination of williams, the hatred to a 9 to of all the rest that food soon come is inflicting on ukrainians. is actually just strengthening the will stair to fight for freedom of this brutality. my shop has brought the international community together and across the globe. we stand

for the people in your grant being able to live in liberty once again in and we both made this clear and you made it clear. when went to camp, we emphasized it as well as not just about sending weapons to ukraine. it's about the humanitarian aspect protecting infrastructure. bringing back children has been kidnapped. i'm taken away today. we also spoken about how with a winter on the horizon, we want to coordinate our age for ukraine because we see that it is particularly the interplay between military age. but also economic age and humanitarian aid need to be self. towns is i'm even if you're is the ocean. the way in my talks yesterday in the us congress, i felt a great deal of goodwill and sympathy for the continuing support of ukraine. and therefore, the support for peace in europe because they had too many such may as difficult as

this is economically. we can see very clearly that ukraine is defending our common values divided. and this is a message that has 2 of us with take with is when we go to new york against of a message. and i see that the whole world is longing for peace presidency. lensky with his piece plan has opened the door for this. and, and jetta in saudi arabia, people from the whole world, who's in these a fetus to put their door in the gap in the door to piece. and now in new york together, often in various different formats, we will be advocating peace in ukraine. it's of age to do it as pieces and the whole world. and so that's the, that's what it means. and it is therefore, in the interest of all of the states and not as well just as many countries whom we've been asking for support for together in the last year and a half. all we have to say, and we have to reflect on ourselves here. instead of the beginning,

but again and again, have asked us, well, why should we support you now for your peace in europe? and now that it's under a threat when you weren't there when we need to do. and this is something we share as well, and it makes it clear that these are different times than they were a few decades ago. that together in formats like g 7 and they to put in many other international bodies as well. we've made it clear, he said, yeah, it wasn't, all right, what we did in the past, i'll be going to mind them. but together we want to shape the future and make it better. not just for our own countries on not her own regions, but also together with others. all i'm, this is why our global outreach, as we call it, within the frame a got you 7, 9 may 2. and the united nations is also coord way towards the outcome. it's been done. so we want to work the more closely together with countries whose

partnerships in recent years we have perhaps taken perhaps of that into for granted that we also talked about it, not just that germany has of fiji ambassador. but i've learned that there are 4 other ambassadors in the region a sent by the us as you pretty much see. so there's got air in more diplomacy in times of a brutal war of aggression. this is something we share as well. i have her for it and the best thing is we give them dropped as the german government. so we talked about this today as well. we are pursuing our efforts in the, in the pacific where you of course, play an important role. not least, we are looking to china where we want to on the risk lines together, not just together between countries, but together with many other countries in this world as well. actually the secretary and invited this along to tony, both sides and humans. the other side of the atlantic, many people,

particularly the younger people, are looking to us. and this is something that we tie there. we share. they are looking at the thing is going wrong in our society. nice and, and then on and from the alien, a people's phone within our own country. and that's advocating liberty and democracy in the world also strengthens our own democracies. that's why it's important to kind of both countries, its strength. this is as democracies, we question what's going on in our own countries fights and at the same time show that democracies working together, staff strengthens every one top, not as friends, and us partner sharing common values on the us and germany are building a friendship on a sound foundation, one that a stand the test of time in the future, you're looking at the end, the younger generation, and one is going to be a miss even more interested. i know since about some of these intensifying

transatlantic relations. i mean, we keep repeating the concepts of the decades behind us, but we're also looking at how this transatlantic partnership is one that will be able to communicate to our young people. so on this note, thank you very much for the time that we've been able to spend time with one another finding time in a year and a half of the it's brutal for of aggression and all the other meetings that we've had in the past. i want to thank you very much for your hospitality. i'm very much looking forward to meeting with and today is michelle is to have a new top bassinger for us, but you are well used to him. so we look forward to bilateral cooperation with him and a bit of weekend, i hope before we meet again in new york. thank you. thank you. the 1st question today goes to john hudson with the washington post. see you as thank you

mister secretary of the buys administration is pushing hard for a normalization of agreement between israel and saudi arabia and a lot of average americans have a question. why should the united states be giving something up so that these 2 countries can get along better? since finding took office, of israel has rebuffed requests to open a consul, it, it has rebuffed requests to stop the expansion of settlements. and it has robust request to rethink the reforms of the judiciary that threatened its democracy. saudi arabia by turn, has ignored several requests to that slash the production of oil and leaders, netanyahu and n b as barely disguised. the fact that they would prefer a trump presidency over a bite and presidency. so i wonder,

does it make the united states and by turn the bite in ministration look week by so obsequious lead catering to what these countries want, who are not actually a war with each other right now trust. i love the formulation of the question, especially the obsequious part, a few things. first, a normalization between israel and saudi arabia, or to be a cheat would, in my judgement, be a transformative event in the middle east and will be transformed it because we've now had 4 decades plus of trimball in that region in one way or the other going back to 1979, you can go back and forth even further of the moving from a region of turmoil to one of much greater stability and integration would have

profound benefits for people in the region. and i believe profound benefits for people around the world. and of course, in one way or another, we've been drawn in time and again to that region when it was in trouble. but it was in conflict of having a region defined by normalize relations between israel. it's neighbors and countries beyond defined by integration and people working together in common cause on common projects that will benefit and improve people's lives, i think would be a singularly positive event. having said that, 1st as important as it would be, it could not be and would not be a substitute for israel and the palestinians also resolving their differences and indeed, and our judgment continuing to move toward and ultimately achieving the 2 state

solution. and it's clear from my own conversations, for example, with saudi leadership that any agreement that might be reached between israel and saudi arabia when it comes to normalization, would need to include a significant component for the palestinians. second, even as we are working on this, it remains a difficult proposition. the specifics of any agreement in terms of what the different parties are looking for are, are challenging. and so while i believe it is very much possible, it is not at all a certainty, but we believe that the benefit that would improve where are we able to achieve it? would certainly be, be worth the effort. cert. who's to say that in an arrangement that involves at least 3 countries where we're able to get there. there would not

be concrete benefits for all 3 countries to include the, the united states. and we would expect progress on the number of issues and the number of areas the clearly are in our interest. so while i believe that normalization in and of itself with the brain much to the benefit of the united states and many other countries around the world as well as the countries in question. it's also very clear that there may well be specific things that will be important for us with regard both the saudi arabia and israel, as well as things they will need from each other as well as things that other parties may well need. so it's one way of saying we're, we're not there, there's no guarantee we'll get there. we believe it's profoundly important if we can achieve it. but i would wait to see.