German foreign minister says return to cold war inadmissible

[jakeXT]

Source: ITAR-TASS

BERLIN, March 31./ITAR-TASS/. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday called on the world community to prevent a return to the cold war in Europe due to the Ukrainian crisis.

“We should not return to the cold war in the 21st century. But this is not ruled out yet,” Steinmeier said in Berlin.

Steinmeier met today with his French and Polish counterparts Laurent Fabius and Radoslaw Sikorski in the format of the Weimar Triangle - a three-party political grouping of Germany, France and Poland. The foreign ministerial talks are to be resumed in Weimar, Germany.

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EU taken by surprise

Were there to be a new EU diplomatic mission, Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of the Liberals in the European parliament, believes the foreign ministers of Germany, Poland and France should once again take up the challenge. He commented that Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Radoslav Sikorski and Laurent Fabius had shown on their recent visit to Kyiv "that they are capable of achieving something, in that they make compromises possible."

The three politicians succeeded in brokering an agreement between the deposed Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, and the opposition, which was briefly celebrated as a breakthrough. However, events in Kyiv moved on far faster than anticipated.

Referring to this, Verhofstadt said, "The EU should not repeat the mistakes of last time and wait too long and let the situation escalate." This time round, though, one can hardly say it did much waiting: Russia has reacted so fast and so excessively to the revolution in Ukraine that it has taken the EU completely by surprise.

http://www.dw.de/eu-foreign-ministers-weigh-responses-to-putin/a-17470528

[Demeter]

1. This is an idiotic statement on its face

and even more so upon reflection.

The enemy are the banksters and the multinationals, who want your souls.

They won't get a Cold War. They only make money in Hot Wars.

[ashling]

2. Inadmissable?