The coalition agreement is perfectly clear about this point.

The fundamentals of German policy on the Middle East remain firm.

The (French) president reiterated in that speech that the stated French nuclear doctrine has not changed in the respect that France does not regard nuclear arms as an instrument of warfare.

The German government expects from Russia and Ukraine that the bilateral negotiations between the two countries about gas deliveries to Ukraine should not lead to the curtailing of gas provisions in Europe.

The energy partnership with Russia, including a trouble-free supply with gas, remains a strategic pillar of German-Russian relations. This issue will certainly be a topic...in the talks.

This is a humanitarian signal and we welcome it.

Germany is still ready to take over a permanent seat in the (UN) Security Council within the framework of UN reforms.

Closing of embassies is absolutely out of the question.

I honestly don't know whether a city of 4 million such as Baghdad could develop a defense concept on the basis of such a sketch.

That is a very good outcome to the negotiations.