AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Washington, D.C. - 9 February 2015 SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President: “We continue to encourage a diplomatic resolution to this issue and, as diplomatic efforts continue this week, we are in absolute agreement that the 21st century cannot stand idle, have a stand idle and simply allow the borders of Europe to be redrawn at the barrel of a gun.” SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President: “If, in fact, diplomacy fails, what I’ve asked my team to do is look at all options. What other means can we put in place to change Mr. Putin’s calculus? And the possibility of lethal defensive weapons is one of those options that’s being examined. But I have not made a decision about that yet. I have consulted with not just Angela, but will be consulting with other allies about this issue. It’s not based on the idea that Ukraine could defeat a Russian army that is determined. It is rather to see whether or not there are additional things we can do to help Ukraine bolster its defences in the face of separatist aggression.” SOUNDBITE: (German) Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany: “We stand for the same principles of the inviolability of territorial integrity. For somebody who comes from Europe, I can only say, if we give up this principle of territorial integrity of countries, then we will not be able to maintain the peaceful order of Europe that we’ve been able to achieve. This is not just any old point. It’s an essential, a crucial point, and we have to stand by it and Russia has violated the territorial integrity of Ukraine, in Crimea and also in Donetsk and Luhansk.” SOUNDBITE: (German) Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany “You may rest assured that no matter what we decide, the alliance between the United States and Europe will continue to stand, will continue to be solid, even though on certain issues we may not always agree.”