Germany: Berlin regrets lack of 'de-escalation' in Ukrainian-Russian tensions, says gov't spox

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SOT, Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson (German): “Well, difficult conversations, careful approach is too exaggerated, I have to discard this term - what am I saying. First of all, it’s good that we’re still talking to each other, that what has always been the basis, namely the Minsk Agreement, continues to be accepted by all sides. And now we have to hope that the sides will move towards each other and that’s where all our efforts go. In this respect, it was an intermediate step yesterday.”

SOT, Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson (German): “At the same time, it became clear, and we see this as an important point, that all participants in the Normandy format want to stick to the Minsk agreements.”

SOT, Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson (German): “It is important, that both President Zelensky and President Putin will meet with the Chancellor. It is clear that we still see no signs of a de-escalation in the current situation. We very much regret that. The allies, the western allies, are very determined at this point and hope for such a sign and we call on Russia and Belarus to contribute to de-escalation, especially in regards to the beginning of military maneuvers that are emerging in the border area and to do those with a maximum of transparency.”

SOT, Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson (German): “Yesterday the Federal Chancellor clearly said - I think you were there - that the aim is to prevent a war in Europe. The situation is very, very serious, and we’ve been saying that for a few weeks. And now it’s a matter of using all our strength through discussion formats, but also through clear positioning in order to prevent further escalation.”

SOT, Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson (German): “What can be said at the moment is that the Americans have already announced that they are moving more troops to Europe. And parts of these troops - that’s a small staff of I think 200 soldiers who have to do more staff duties here at headquarters - would also be transferred to Germany. But according to my information, there are no major transfers of troops to Germany.”

SOT, Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson (German): “At the moment, the main thing is that, after we have come through this Omicron wave very well so far despite the very high number of infections, we should not jeopardize anything and at the same time to discuss possible liftings. The pandemic situation in Germany varies depending on the region and current phase.’‘

SOT, Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson (German): “It is very clever or advisable to discuss something like this internally during this phase without breaking news immediately.”

SOT, Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson (German): “Then you have to think about how you want to orchestrate possible opening steps. If you want to open everything at once - yes, probably not, but that you then proceed in stages and say, what can you do as a first step, as the next step, so that you don’t jeopardize that now - I’ve already done that before tries to paraphrase - that jeopardizes what we have now all created together over several months, namely that these infection numbers, although they are very high, are significantly lower in Germany than in many other European countries and that also applies to both the health system and the critical infrastructure has not been burdened to the extent that was feared before we issued these restrictions.”

SOT Steffen Hebestreit, German government spokesperson (German): “That is your right. In Germany, administrative decisions can be reviewed in court, and that seems to be the case now. I read that RT took action against it - the decision of the Medienboard, the MDBB - and that’s now a matter for the courts, that’s where it belongs, that’s [a] non-state decision that we don’t have to comment on.”

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