German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul Heads to Paris for G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting: Iran Needs Concrete Negotiations, No New Military Escalation
Germany's Federal Foreign Office said on November 9 that Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul issued a statement the same day before departing for Paris for the Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers meeting, setting out Germany's positions on the Iran conflict and Russia's war against Ukraine.
Wadephul said frequent international meetings are needed more than ever at a time like this: the E4 countries' meeting with four regional partners in Istanbul, the G20 meeting in Atlanta, United States, just over a week ago, the Council of the Baltic Sea States meeting in Warsaw last Friday, and now the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Paris all prove, he said, that diplomatic efforts are in full swing. Germany is a member of all these bodies, he said, and uses its role to safeguard European interests.
On the Iran conflict, Wadephul said that for European interests this means concrete negotiations now and no new military escalation.
On Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, he said Europe must be part of the search for a solution, and that Germany, along with France and the United Kingdom, will present Europe's positions. Europe does not need a new security architecture, as Russia is trying to make Europeans believe, he said, but rather quite simply the restoration of the existing security architecture.
He named the Helsinki Final Act, the Charter of Paris and the Budapest Memorandum, saying they aim to guarantee the borders and sovereign equality of all states. All of this is vital for the revival of the global economy, he said, a key task for the seven democracies with the strongest economies in the world.
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(Source: German Federal Foreign Office)
Source: German Federal Foreign Office
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Photo: 图：美国国务卿鲁比奥（左）与德国外交部长 Johann Wadephul（右）2025年5月在土耳其 Antalya 会晤时握手（资料图）。美国国务院官方照片，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) shaking hands with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (right) in Antalya, Türkiye, in May 2025 (file photo). Official U.S. Department of State photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
