German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius begins a multi-day trip through the United States and Canada on Tuesday. His first stop is New York where he is expected to give a speech to representatives of the American Jewish Committee, an organization that represents Jewish interests. Pistorius is scheduled to meet UN Secretary General António Guterres on Wednesday. A visit to the defence company Boeing is also on the agenda. During the trip, Pistorius plans to meet his US counterpart Lloyd Austin in
The Bundestag extended the mandate for Germany's participation in the EU naval mission to enforce the UN's arms embargo on Libya for a further year after a vote on Thursday. A majority of lawmakers in the German lower house voted in favour of the motion, meaning some 300 service personnel will remain part of the EUNAVFOR Med Irini mission in the Central Mediterranean. The operation is a key part of the peace process led by the United Nations aiming to bring stability to Libya, with the mission t
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius confronted leading officers whose conversation was intercepted by Russia after a special defence meeting on Monday, and also revealed the air force chief had also joined the call on an insecure line. A discussion of senior air force officers discussing the possibilities of a deployment of German Taurus cruise missiles in Ukraine was published by a Russian media outlet earlier this month. Russian intelligence services intercepted the call that at least one
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius plans to continue Germany's involvement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he said on Tuesday during a multi-day visit to the Balkans. "We want to support Bosnia and Herzegovina to the best of our ability and prevent Russia from misusing another trouble spot, another potentially destabilizing area, to expand its influence in the assumption or hope that it can destabilize the West in some way," Pistorius said at a meeting with his counterpart Zukan Helez in the Bos
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