7 months ago
2
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said connected Saturday (October 25, 2025) that Israel, the U.S. and the different mediators of the Gaza ceasefire deal are sharing accusation to disrupt immoderate threats and that allowed them to place a imaginable impending onslaught past weekend.
The State Department said a week agone that it had “credible reports” Hamas could interruption the ceasefire with an onslaught connected Palestinian civilians successful Gaza.
“We enactment retired a connection done State Department, sent it to our mediators arsenic well, astir an impending attack, and it didn't happen,” helium told reporters en way from Israel to Qatar, wherever helium met up with President Donald Trump for a multistop circuit successful Asia. “So that's the extremity here, is yet to place a menace earlier it happens." Rubio said aggregate countries are funny successful joining an planetary stabilization unit that aims to deploy to Gaza but that they request much details astir the ngo and rules of engagement.
The U.S. could telephone for a U.N. solution supporting the unit truthful much nations tin instrumentality part, helium said, adding that the U.S. has been talking with Qatar, Egypt and Turkey and noting involvement from Indonesia and Azerbaijan.
“Many of the countries who privation to beryllium a portion of it can't bash it without that,” helium said of an planetary mandate.
He besides noted that adjacent week the president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, is expected to beryllium the latest successful a parade of U.S. officials to question to Israel.
Vice President JD Vance joined peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner earlier successful the week successful Israel successful an effort to enactment up the fragile ceasefire deal. Rubio arrived conscionable arsenic Vance was departing, gathering with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and touring a U.S.-led coordination halfway monitoring the ceasefire.
Rubio touched connected respective different cardinal overseas argumentation priorities successful his remarks to reporters. Here's a look: Sanctions connected Colombia's president A time aft the Trump medication imposed sanctions connected Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his household and a subordinate of his authorities implicit accusations of engagement successful the planetary cause trade, Rubio said it was not astir targeting state itself, which is 1 of the closest American allies successful the region.
“This is not a U.S. vs. Colombia thing,” helium said. “This is america reacting to the actions of what's turned into a hostile overseas leader.” He said the U.S. has fantabulous relations with Colombia's radical and institutions and that the Trump medication didn't privation to wounded the country's economy, truthful it held disconnected connected tariffs. Trump past play had threatened to unleash them.
Asked if helium would regularisation retired tariffs, Rubio said Trump makes those decisions but “obviously the president was alert of the options disposable to him and chose these instead.” The sanctions ramped up tensions with Colombia's archetypal leftist leader, who has deed backmost astatine the Trump administration.
“I judge the existent U.S. authorities violated its regularisation of instrumentality by sanctioning maine arsenic if I were a mobster, erstwhile I dedicated my beingness to warring the mafia," Petro wrote connected X. "Their desperation volition pb them to acceptable traps for me. I'm acceptable to fight. For myself and for my people.” Stance toward Venezuela Reporters asked Rubio whether different leaders successful the portion whitethorn assistance impulse Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to measurement down, with speculation swirling astir whether caller U.S. subject actions successful Latin America are aimed astatine ousting Maduro.
Rubio responded that erstwhile the U.S. deploys assets successful its ain hemisphere, "everyone benignant of freaks out." The Trump medication has launched a bid of strikes against alleged drug-running boats successful the Caribbean and eastbound Pacific and is deploying an craft bearer to South America, a large escalation of an already robust subject buildup successful the region.
Rubio insisted that the U.S. is taking portion successful a counterdrug operation. And helium again accused Maduro's authorities of allowing and participating successful the shipment of narcotics.
“This is simply a precise superior occupation for the hemisphere, and a precise destabilizing one," Rubio said. "And that has to beryllium addressed.” He says different countries successful the region, including Ecuador, Mexico, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, cooperate successful combating cause trafficking.
Maduro said the U.S. authorities is forging a warfare against him.
“They are fabricating an extravagant narrative, a vulgar, transgression and wholly fake one,” Maduro said Friday nighttime successful a nationalist broadcast. “Venezuela is simply a state that does not nutrient cocaine leaves.” Taiwan and China Rubio said it was important for the U.S. to stay engaged with China but that Taiwan would not go a bargaining spot for the world's largest economies to scope a larger commercialized agreement.
Trump says helium expects to conscionable Chinese President Xi Jinping successful South Korea successful the coming days during his Asia trip. Beijing claims sovereignty implicit the self-governed land and vows to prehend it by unit if necessary. The United States is obligated by its ain laws to springiness subject enactment to Taiwan.
“If what radical are disquieted astir is we're going to get immoderate commercialized woody oregon we're going to get favorable attraction connected commercialized successful speech for walking distant from Taiwan — nary 1 is contemplating that,” Rubio said. (AP) HIG HIG
