social-democratic foreign policy Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) strengthen the outside of the back in contention for a possible upgrade after termination of the INF disarmament Treaty and the Union, binding themselves to the military strategy of U.S. President Donald Trump. Union group Vice-Johann Wadephul (CDU) had accused the Meuse, he weakness of the Nato, if it could be a nuclear retrofit. The Minister of foreign Affairs negotiated on Friday in Moscow, among other things, about the INF Treaty. During the Meuse in Moscow advertising for the receipt of the INF Treaty, “speculated the Union on the retrofitting of nuclear medium-range missiles in Germany” criticized the Minister of state at the Federal foreign office, Niels Annen. It was “wrong, right now, in the logic of nuclear deterrence to fall back”. Instead of a debate on retrofit effort were to develop arms control is necessary.
The allegations are “fabricated and politically neither appropriate nor understandable”, not criticised SPD parliamentary group Deputy Rolf hat. Maas need in front of his disarmament talks in Moscow the “no background noise”. Shortly before the final termination of the INF Treaty by US President Trump, he deserve support in his Efforts, a nuclear proliferation spiral in Europe to stop. The Union show, once again, the reflexes from the Cold war, the threats used have been to own military efforts. “It is unfortunate that the Union with this line, knowingly binds to a military strategy of Trump, the wars with nuclear weapons holds back for can be traced.” While Russia upgrade atomically, the United States is a dangerous link between new nuclear systems, and the production of a extensive invulnerability of the United States by a new missile defense. “Europe must put its own interests and accents, should also be the coalition partner,” said the SPD politician.
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Maas called on in Moscow, his host on Friday, when the INF Treaty to relent. “We believe that Russia can save the contract,” he said after the conversation with his colleague Sergey Lavrov. To this end, Russia must disarm by the agreements prohibited cruise missiles, “proven and verifiable”.
