The President of the United States, Donald Trump, began a press conference with the presence of his office this Thursday (9), during which he made comments about the ongoing agreement in the Middle East to achieve a permanent ceasefire in the Middle East.
“I believe it will be a lasting peace, I hope it will be an eternal peace. Peace in the Middle East,” he declared at the opening of the cabinet meeting at the White House.
According to the Republican, the remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza will be released between Monday and Tuesday of next week. “Recovering them is a complicated process. I prefer not to comment on what they need to do to recover them. There are places you don’t want to be. But we will rescue the hostages on Tuesday — Monday or Tuesday — and that will be a day of joy,” he said.
The president added that he intends to travel to the region to “formalize” the signing of the agreement and included a stop in Egypt.
Trump praised the US government’s efforts to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas, after three days of negotiations in Egypt. He stated that the conflict is the “eighth that has been resolved [por seu governo] and signaled that war in Ukraine will be next.”
“We’ve resolved seven major wars or conflicts, and this is number eight. And the one that I thought would be perhaps the quickest of all, between Russia and Ukraine, hasn’t happened yet. Although I think that will happen too,” Trump declared. The American considers his government’s victories to be involved in peace negotiations in the Cambodia-Thailand conflicts; Kosovo-Serbia; Democratic Republic of Congo-Rwanda; Pakistan-India; Israel-Iran; Egypt-Ethiopia; and Armenia-Azerbaijan.
The president lamented that while the end of hostilities between Kiev and Moscow remains unanswered, “around 7,000 people are dying every week”, something he defined as “quite serious”.
Trump highlighted that the majority of these losses are soldiers, “young soldiers”, according to him. “They are going to war and they are being killed. And although it doesn’t affect us in many ways, since we have a big ocean between us, nobody wants that to happen,” he said.
