Check against delivery! 

You know that it is our 17^th meeting, and you came to the Foreign Affairs Council five times, many more times than any other guest [apart from Ukraine].  

It is a real pleasure to welcome you here in Brussels in these troubled times. Thank you for having the time to discuss about the current situation. You have been a very good colleague and a close friend invited to the Foreign Affairs Council so many times, and discussing [with us]. I remember before [Russia’s] war in Ukraine, how many phone calls [we held], how many meetings [we had] trying to avoid the war. We did not succeed on that; now, we should be able to make the war stop in a just manner for the Ukrainians.  

Thank you, once again, for this cooperation that we have had. It has been a real pleasure.  

Link to the video: https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-263878