news made for a slightly uncomfortable p.r. inspired gabriele at a scheduled press conference with his counterpart from bosnia-herzegovina. it was a routine appointment for a german foreign minister but first things are anything but routine right now minute the meeting with his bosnian counterpart igor sir not out on thursday was his last official international engagement. and gum real has been germany's foreign minister for just over a year during that time he became the country's most popular politician even beating chancellor merkel and future economics minister paid to in opinion polls here and much respect for his work for example his handling of strange german turkish relations god will often met his turkish counterpart medlock shovel so new and invited him to his home as he worked to get german journalists and human rights activists released and he succeeded and part some of the prisoners were freed. but there is another sign to seek knock on trail he is notoriously independent and