Union attacks Heiko Maas : this is detrimental to The Cohesion of Nato

are repeated in the security policy soon, the 80s? Is Germany heading for a new retrofit debate because Nato is responding to the threat of a new Russian missile system that violates the INF disarmament Treaty? Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD), painted for weeks this danger to the wall – and has set. "Nuclear proliferation is certainly the wrong answer," he explains, and predicts: "the stationing of new medium-range missiles would be launched in Germany on wide resistance."

The peace party, the SPD will hear such sounds. However, the Partner Union is disturbed – and responded with harsh words. "When a foreign Minister does not exclude an Option from the outset, then it weakens the negotiating position of the Alliance," he is now group Vice-Johann Wadephul (CDU): "The harm to the Reputation of German Foreign and security policy, which is detrimental to the cohesion of Nato."

Wadephul under the Minister of the exterior, he had, especially the sensitivities of the SPD in view: "Obviously, the Minister takes back views, which is not in the thing useful." You should take note that Russia had developed a new weapons system and to the kidneys probably also the station started, was in breach of the INF Treaty and Germany immediately threatening. It is not the strength of the security of Europe, "if we bury our heads in the Sand, but if we address these developments and Russia, the INF Treaty."

The CDU foreign policy expert calls: "We need to keep all options open." On the development of a new missile by Russia, there are "many possibilities for a response," says Wadephul: "not necessarily There must be a retrofit of land-based weapons, there are also other defensive measures could be developed." Similarly, the Chancellor had spoken to Angela Merkel, according to participants in the meeting of the foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. In contrast to Maas, the Chancellor is not expected to have any new retrofit debate. You don't think history will repeat, she is quoted as saying.

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Also, the liberals are surprised. "It is a characteristic of wise is not, in principle, foreign policy issues, a nobody, to answer," says group Deputy Alexander Graf Lambsdorff. This is all the more applicable, "if the Federal government is heading once again in a big fight, the of power foreign Ministers in the entire Alliance visible." Maas will fly to Moscow on Friday to talk about the INF Treaty.