Foreign relations of Germany

German Ambassador Martin Erdmann

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Sept. 30 met his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris, a Turkish diplomatic source has said.

Fr Paolo Cortese,  a Catholic priest and head of the "Bishop Evgenii Bosilkov Cultural Centre" in Belene, a Bulgarian town on the Danube, is organising a series of events to commemorate the victims of various totalitarian or authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said they want relations with Turkey to normalize.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his French counterpart Jean-Iv le Drian  will hold talks Tuesday to discuss the prospects for their bilateral relations and to exchange views on the situation in Syria, Ukraine and the Korean Peninsula.

The United Nations Security Council will hold talks about the situation in Syria on Jan. 22, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on his Twitter feed on Jan. 21.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the European Union is committed to bring the Western Balkans region "slowly but surely" to EU membership, reported BGNES.

"Political stability in the region means political stability for us as well. We know this from the past experience, "she said at the European Forum for the Western Balkans in the Italian city of Trieste.

Relations with Russia are getting better, but more needs to be done before sanctions against Russia are lifted, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.

Speaking during a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, Merkel said that this can happen only when the Minsk peace agreement has been fully implemented.

The official report of this year's 53th Munich Security Conference on Feb. 17-19 was titled "Post-Truth, Post-West, Post-Order?"

That in itself explains a lot about explorations in the field of security and diplomacy under the new global circumstances symbolized by the election of Donald Trump as the president of the U.S.

The Munich Security Conference (MSC), one of the world's most prestigious geopolitical gatherings, convened from Feb. 17 to 19. Since 1963, the MSC has been serving as an important platform for policymakers and experts to engage in open and fruitful discussions about the planet's most pressing security issues.