Today, wanted to talk to US-foreign Minister Pompeo in Berlin with Chancellor Merkel and Federal foreign Minister Maas. In the short term, he said the Meeting now - officially because of "urgent Affairs".
a Few hours before the scheduled talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Federal foreign Minister Heiko Maas, the US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo has cancelled his visit to Berlin. A spokesman for the US Embassy reasoned the decision with urgent matters. For more information he makes.
visit should be rescheduledThe Foreign office confirmed the cancellation Pompeos.
Pompeos visit had only been postponed and will be rescheduled according to the figures available soon. The U.S. state Department announced that Pompeo "is happy to be soon in Berlin," the important Meeting.
Neither the Chancellery nor the foreign office, there was initially a reaction to the cancellation. The Foreign office confirmed the cancellation to be merely without any Details. Pompeo had previously participated in a Meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland.
Many of the topics of conversationThe U.S. provided foreign Ministers was originally supposed to meet this afternoon with Angela Merkel and Maas in Berlin. Topics of the talks, among other things, the situation in the Ukraine, in Venezuela, in Iran and in Syria as well as the relationship to Russia and China should be.