Given the profound changes in US foreign policy under President Donald Trump, European unity must be the continent's top priority, German Foreign Minister Johann Vaddeful said, DPA reported, quoted by BTA.
"Our transatlantic relationship is undergoing a profound transformation", Vaddeful told an audience attending an event marking the 75th anniversary of the restoration of the German Foreign Ministry after World War II. As security in Europe may be in more concrete danger than in the past 75 years, European unity must be "our top priority", Wadeful said. At the same time, the foreign minister argued that people should never forget that it was the United States that liberated Germany from the "Nazi regime", shaped the young republic and made reunification "possible". German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will also speak at the event, DPA reported. The German foreign minister said today "he believes that US President Donald Trump's announcement of talks with Iran could mark a turning point in the almost month-long conflict". Something is happening and that is a good thing at a time when there are more risks of escalation than "opportunities to contain this". conflict," Foreign Minister Johan Vaddeful told MDR television.
On Monday, Trump wrote on his "Truth Social" platform that the United States and Iran had "very good and productive" talks about "a complete and total resolution of hostilities in the Middle East."
Iran said it had not been involved in the negotiations.
Vaddeful said he believed Trump had had serious talks with Iran because "otherwise he wouldn't have said it that way" and wouldn't have postponed his threat to attack Iranian power plants. "It's a fragile start, but it's a start nonetheless," Vaddeful said. "We all need to work to ensure that this progress continues and that there is a way to control this conflict," the minister said.