UKRAINE-CRISIS/STEINMEIER The world needs Russia to address global challenges together, says Steinmeier
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UKRAINE-CRISIS/STEINMEIER The world needs Russia to address global challenges together, says Steinmeier
- Title: UKRAINE-CRISIS/STEINMEIER The world needs Russia to address global challenges together, says Steinmeier
- Date: 11th September 2015
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (FILE - SEPTEMBER 12, 1990) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** WIDE OF ROOM WHERE 'TWO PLUS FOUR" TALKS WERE HELD GENSCHER SEATED THEN U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE JAMES BAKER (ON RIGHT) SEATED AT TABLE / WIDE OF TABLE THEN SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE SEATED THEN EAST GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER LOTHAR DE MAIZIERE SIGNING DOCUMENT GENSCHER SIGNING WIDE OF CEREMONY FOREIGN MINISTERS TOASTING
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Friday (September 11) that Russia was needed "at the table of world responsibility in order to address the challenges in other parts of the world which we have and which were maybe never as numerous and as dangerous as right now."
"It's about Ukraine but it's about a lot more than Ukraine," Steinmeier said during a ceremony commemorating 25 years since the Moscow signing of the so called "Two plus Four Treaty."
Dignitaries in the audience included former Soviet deputy foreign minister Anatoly Adamishin and former West German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher.
The 1990 treaty, signed by then East Germany and West Germany and the four World War Two allies before reunification, drew a line under future claims.
"For our Polish neighbours, it was decisive that Germany would not make any territorial claims east of the border of the Oder-Neisse river," said Steinmeier.
"And for Germany, and this is how we see it, the Two plus Four Treaty meant the end of the post-World War Two era."
Just weeks after the signing in Moscow, East and West Germany united on October 3, 1990. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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