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| German Chancellor Angela Merkel SPD candidate Peer Steinbrück |
Reckless U.S. Middle East Policy jeopardizes all nations’
relations, domestic and foreign
Editing by Carolyn Bennett
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed Russia’s
willingness to support the independent investigation of the possible use of
chemical weapons in Syria and she has also emphasized the urgency of finding “a
political solution to the conflict in Syria.”
A Spiegel piece reports Merkel in interview with the
newspaper Mittelbayerische Zeitung calling to mind
The ‘terrible civil war … taking
place in Syria [that has] … already cost more than 100,000 lives’ [and] can
only be ended by a comprehensive political solution.
Angela Merkel said, “‘We must get the parties to the
conflict around a table.’”
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| UN Security Council |
The German government, Ralf Neukirch wrote, “has had to
perform a delicate balancing act in its approach to possible military
intervention in Syria. For foreign policy reasons, [Chancellor] Merkel cannot
afford to openly criticize the Americans.
“Instead, she has to dispense her views on an American
attack in such a way that they are seen as criticism in Germany and support in
the United States. It is a method Merkel has, to a certain degree, perfected.”
Press TV today is reporting Chancellor Merkel saying her country
will not participate in a foreign military action against Syria.
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| Even better UN General Assembly |
In a Sunday televised debate she is quoted saying, “There
needs to be ‘a collective answer by the UN’ to the August 21 chemical attack in
Syria.” Her opponent in the coming federal election, Peer Steinbrück, said,
“Germany would ‘greatly regret it’ if the United States strikes [Syria] alone
without an international mandate.”
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| Germany's flag |
A German federal election is scheduled for September 22, 2013,
to determine the members of the 18th Bundestag, the main federal legislative
house of Germany. It can be held earlier or later under exceptional
constitutional circumstances (such as in the case where the Chancellor loses a
vote of confidence in the Bundestag, then, during a grace period before the
Bundestag can vote in a replacement Chancellor, the Chancellor may request the
Federal President to dissolve the Bundestag and hold elections earlier.
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| Germany in context of Europe, Middle East/Asia, Africa |
Peer Steinbrück, a German social democratic politician, is the
SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) candidate (Merkel is a CDU, Christian
Democratic Union of Germany incumbent candidate) for Chancellor of Germany in
the 2013 federal election. On September 28, 2012, Steinbrück was nominated by
his party as opposition candidate for Chancellor. From 2005 to 2009, he served
as German Federal Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Chancellor Merkel.
Sources and notes
“Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Russia’s willingness to
investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria… At the same time, the
Chancellor underlined the urgent need to find a political solution to the
conflict in Syria,” Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Saturday,
August 24 2013, number: 285 year: 2013, http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/EN/Pressemitteilungen/BPA/2013/2013-08-24-syrien-bkin.html?nn=709674
“Poison gas attack contravenes international law: In several
telephone conversations, Chancellor Angela Merkel has consulted with Germany’s
close partners on developments in Syria. The Chancellor proposed that the UN
Security Council should look at the poison gas attack on Syrian civilians, “August
30, 2013, http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/EN/Artikel/2013/08/2013-08-24-syrien-bkin-3.html?nn=709674
“Military Intervention: Germany Caught in the Middle on Syria”
by Ralf Neukirch, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-government-takes-delicate-position-on-attack-on-syria-a-919736.html
“Germany says won’t join attack on Syria,” September 2, 2013,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/09/02/321668/germany-says-wont-join-attack-on-
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