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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said he was ‘against cutting all bridges with Russia’ during a plenary session at Berlin’s German Bundestag, on Wednesday, as parliamentary groups debated Russian developments including sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and the jailing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
During the meeting Maas said, “Anyone who questions Nordstream 2 in principle can express this opinion, but they must also consider, at least geostrategically, what consequences this will have and what it will mean for Europe’s ability to influence Russia.”
“They are driving Russia and China more and more together and they are creating the biggest economic-military alliance there is and I don’t think that the strategy of the West should be in this confrontation and that’s why I’m against cutting all the bridges to Russia in this context,” he reasoned.
“We will continue to maintain dialogue, but the key is not in Berlin or Brussels, but in Moscow,” he added.
SOT, Manuel Sarrazin, Alliance 90/The Greens politician and MP (German): “The protests in Russia also show the Russia of the powerful, the Russia of eternal Putin. They show fear, violence, torture and murder. They show presumptuousness, degradation, silence, they show money and corruption. That also holds up the mirror towards us.”
SOT, Manuel Sarrazin, Alliance 90/The Greens politician and MP (German): “We can and must change our behavior towards those who consciously maintain ties to Russia for purely monetary reasons, away from Europe and away from their own citizens. Those who remain silent now, will have to remain silent for a very long time, those who don’t act now, their words will not be heard for a very long time.”
SOT, Alexander Gauland, AfD parliamentary group chairman (German): “It was good and right to help Navalny in Germany with actions. It is counterproductive to impose sanctions on Russia or to punish Navalny when the government does not share our values.”
SOT, Heiko Maas, German Foreign Minister (German): “At the next EU Foreign Ministers Council on January 22, we will have to deal with a reaction to Russian behaviour and how to deal with opposition and peaceful demonstrators.”
SOT, Heiko Maas, German Foreign Minister (German): “And anyone who questions Nord Stream 2 in principle can express this opinion, but they must also consider, at least geostrategically, what consequences this will have and what it will mean for Europe’s ability to influence Russia.”
SOT, Heiko Maas, German Foreign Minister (German): “But it must be absolutely clear where this is leading geostrategically. They are driving Russia and China more and more together and they are creating the biggest economic-military alliance there is and I don’t think that the strategy of the West should be in this confrontation and that’s why I’m against cutting all the bridges to Russia in this context.”
SOT, Heiko Maas, German Foreign Minister (German): “We will continue to maintain dialogue, but the key is not in Berlin or Brussels, but in Moscow.”
SOT, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, FDP MP (German): “The Kremlin only understands clear, unambiguous language, which is why we the Free Democrats are calling on the federal government to impose a moratorium on the construction of Nord Stream 2 now. We don’t want an investment ruin in the Baltic Sea, as the Greens are proposing, we want a construction stop that gives Moscow the opportunity to rethink its policy and return to the ground of its own constitution.”
SOT, Gregor Gysi, Member of Parliament for Leftist Party (German): “President Steinmeier and Chancellor Merkel and Minister President Schwesig are right about Nordstream 2. It is the last bridge between Russia and the rest of Europe that must not be touched.”
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