Starting a virtual meeting at 10 Downing Street with around 25 world leaders, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says Vladimir Putin will "sooner or later" have to come to the negotiating table. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Good morning colleagues. Can I just start by thanking you all for making time for this
00:08important meeting this morning. We've got a lot to discuss because since we last met
00:14in person in London just under two weeks ago, a lot has happened. Now what we see, and this
00:22is centrepiece for our discussions today, is that Putin is the one trying to delay,
00:28and in a sense, and you all know this, if Putin is serious about peace it's very simple. He has
00:36to stop his barbaric attacks on Ukraine and agree to a ceasefire, and the world is watching. My
00:46feeling is that sooner or later he's going to have to come to the table and engage in serious
00:52discussion. But, and this is a big but for us this morning in our meeting, we can't sit back
01:00and simply wait for that to happen. We have to keep pushing ahead, pushing forward, and preparing
01:08for peace, and a peace that will be secure and that will last. And I think that means strengthening
01:17Ukraine so they can defend themselves, and strengthening obviously in terms of military
01:23capability, in terms of funding, in terms of the provision of further support from all of us to
01:29Ukraine. Secondly, being prepared to defend any deal ourselves through a coalition of the willing.
01:37We've begun that process and this morning we can take it forward. And then thirdly, and really
01:43importantly given the developments of the last few days, to keep the pressure on Putin to come
01:48to the table, and I think collectively we've got a number of ways that we can do that.