(10 Jul 2025)
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Rome – 10 July 2025
1. Wide of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz entering conference room
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Friedrich Merz, German Chancellor:
"I discussed this with President Trump last Thursday and asked him to deliver these (Patriot) systems. The Americans partly need them themselves. However, they also have a lot of them. The defense ministers are currently negotiating this. Whether there will be a corresponding delivery is not yet definitively decided."
3. Wide of Merz
4. Mid of Merz and an official
5. Mid of Merz leaving the press conference
STORYLINE:
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz confirmed Thursday that his country’s officials were negotiating the purchase of more Patriot missile systems from the United States.
Asked how many Patriot systems Germany is interested in buying, Merz didn’t give a number.
But he said that he spoke to Trump a week ago “and asked him to deliver these systems.”
“The Americans partly need them themselves. However, they also have a lot of them,” he said.
“The defense ministers are currently negotiating this. Whether there will be a corresponding delivery is not yet definitively decided.”
It comes as the Trump administration resumed sending some weapons to Ukraine, a week after the Pentagon had directed that some deliveries be paused, US officials said on Wednesday.
The weapons heading into Ukraine include 155 mm munitions and precision-guided rockets known as GMLRS, two officials told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to provide details that had not been announced publicly.
It’s unclear exactly when the weapons started moving.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the pause on some shipments last week to allow the Pentagon to assess its weapons stockpiles, in a move that caught the White House by surprise.
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