Foreign relations of Germany

The Munich Security Conference has started in Munich on Feb. 17 with top world leaders, diplomats and defense officials getting their first opportunity to meet with members of the U.S. President Donald Trump's administration amid concerns over the new president's commitment to NATO and posture toward Russia.

No breakthrough has been reached at the meeting in Minsk attended by the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia.
The countries from the Normandy Four discussed the withdrawal of armed formations from the front line in Eastern Ukraine and the exchange of prisoners of war.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told his German counterpart Frank Walter Steinmeier there was "no need to fuel tensions" over the RS Day referendum.

In a telephone conversation on Thursday, Lavrov called on Steinmeier to focus instead on "encouraging the Bosnian sides to start a constructive dialogue," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by TASS.

Abandoned by France, defied by eastern Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel cuts a lonely figure in her struggle for EU "solidarity" on the refugee crisis ahead of a Brussels summit.

Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will take part in the 52nd Munich Security Conference on February 12-14.

His ministry announced on Wednesday he would travel to Germany at the invitation of the chairman of the conference, Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger.

Upon an invitation from the Goethe Institute, I recently attended a conference focusing on the relations between the German Foreign Ministry and various foundations. 

While the foundations are keen to underline their sensitivity over their independence and their wish to not be told what to do by the state, the two sides agree nevertheless on the need to have a dialogue.

German Ambassador to India Michael Steiner has said that Washington considered a nuclear attack on Afghanistan after September 11.

A former adviser to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said that all the documents were signed and waiting for the final decision.

BELGRADE - The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is the winner of "Kaiser-Otto" in 2015, Mayor of Magdeburg Lutz Trümper announced on Sunday.

The OSCE received this award for its contribution to stability in Europe and neighbouring regions, as stated in the announcement.

German Foreign Affairs Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday said that, according to a "representative" study conducted in Germany, Romanians are among the best integrated employees in the labour market in this country.

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French, German and Ukrainian leaders are to discuss a last-ditch peace bid for east Ukraine with Vladimir Putin on Feb. 8, after the US called for "deeds" from the Russian leader accused of masterminding the conflict.