GERMANY: GERMAN PRESIDENT RICHARD VON WEIZSAECKER VISITS UNITED STATES (US) MILITARY BASE IN GESTURE OF SUPPORT FOR US GULF WAR EFFORT

Record ID: 336916

  • Title: GERMANY: GERMAN PRESIDENT RICHARD VON WEIZSAECKER VISITS UNITED STATES (US) MILITARY BASE IN GESTURE OF SUPPORT FOR US GULF WAR EFFORT
  • Date: 29th January 1991
  • Summary: GIESSEN, GERMANY (JANUARY 29, 1991) 1. SV PANS WEIZSAECKER GETTING OUT OF CAR AND BEING GREETED BY US SERVICEMEN AND WIVES AND ENTERING BUILDING (3 SHOTS) 0.29 2. SV PAN WEIZSAECKER INSIDE BUILDING 0.39 3. SV AND CU WEIZCSAECKER SEATED AND SPEAKING TO CHILDREN (2 SHOTS) 0.44 4. SV AND GV WEIZSAECKER ADDRESSING SERVICEMEN'S FAMILIES FROM PODIUM (4 SHOTS) 1.00 Initi
  • Embargoed: 13th February 1991 12:00
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  • Location: GIESSEN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA7Q8NYYFOLO7AGXMIETQOZ1G6H
  • Story Text: GIESSEN, GERMANY

    German President Richard von Weizsaecker on Tuesday (January 29) thanked families of United States (US) servicemen involved in the Gulf conflict for their dedicated to a cause which the United States and Germany shared.

    Weizsaecker was speaking at a US military base in Giessen, north of Frankfurt, during a visit seen as a gesture of solidarity with Washington in the Gulf war.

    Around 80,000 out of 260,000 US troops stationed in Germany have been redeployed in the Gulf.

    The previous day a Jordanian-based Islamic group threatened to attack US bases in Germany in revenge for the US-led war against Iraq. "We're thinking, for example, of an American installation near Frankfurt," said Nader al-Tamini, spokesman of the radical Islamic Jihad (Holy War) Beit al-Maqdess movement.

    Germany has been criticised for sending no troops to the Gulf though it is under a constitutional ban not to used German soldiers outside the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) area.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - TOBIAS SCHLIE</strong>
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