Olaf Salts continues to deny the Taurus missile mission in Ukraine

Germany’s chancellor does not change his attitude and repeats his refusal to surrender Taurus missiles in as he considers the mission of long-range weapons, which need the development of German soldiers outside the country, a limit he does not wish to exceed. “As chancellor, I have the responsibility to prevent Germany’s involvement in this war,” Olaf Salts said in replying yesterday to questions by MPs, accusing the Christian Union opposition (CDU/CSU) of “dispersing half truths” on the Taurus issue, when the head of the CDU’s foreign policy parliamentary group Norbert Lammert asked him if he considers that, under international law, France and Britain are involved in the war, supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine. “By providing arms you do not become a part of the war. Nobody said that. Neither I nor anyone else in the responsible environment of the federal government,” he said, but clarified that “the way this tradition is done from France and Britain cannot be applied to us.” The chancellor also rejected the assumption that Germany’s relations with France and Britain have been disrupted, following comments on the missile system. “Co-operation with the governments of Great Britain and France is good,” he said and noted that Germany supplies weapons worth more than seven billion euros this year, France worth three billion euros and Britain $2.5 billion. “These together create power”. Tomorrow (Friday), Olaf Solz will accept French President Emmanuel Macron and then Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The central issue of meetings, in the “Weimar schema”, will be, according to government representative Stephen Hebestright, the continuation of Ukraine’s support from Europe. The tripartite meeting will have preceded Olaf Salts’ meeting with Emmanuel Macron.