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Foreign Minister Steinmeier to Meet with Secretary Rice
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier will meet with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today in Washington, DC, to discuss a range of international issues. Foreign Minister Steinmeier will also meet and talk with the foreign policy advisors to the three US presidential candidates on Friday to form an impression about the foreign policy views of the candidates. Foreign Minister Steinmeier will also meet with Senator Joe Liebermann (I-CT). After arriving on Thursday night, Steinmeier met with Dr. Henry Kissinger. "I am looking forward to this visit and I am looking forward to these talks," Steinmeier said on Friday morning. He pointed out that Washington is probably the city he has visited the most in recent years and that he has met many times now with Secretary Rice, most recently in Bucharest last week on the sidelines of the NATO Summit. That shows that Germany and the United States "know that we have to pull together" to successfully address important international issues, Steinmeier said. Among the issues he will discuss with Rice, Steinmeier said, are the unstable situation in the Middle East, the nuclear controversy with Iran, and the need to stabilize the Western Balkans. The situation in the Western Balkans is especially challenging at the moment, he said, because of the upcoming elections in Serbia.
Finally on Friday, on the occasion of the official opening of the Newseum, Foreign Minister Steinmeier will visit the Berlin Gallery at the museum on Friday afternoon. The newest museum complex to be erected near the National Mall, the Newseum is a unique interactive museum dedicated to the history of news gathering and to freedom of the press and other freedoms protected under the First Amendment. In Boston on Saturday, Foreign Minister Steinmeier will attend a conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Fraunhofer USA Inc. and MIT will announce the establishment of the joint Center for Sustainable Energy Systems. The center, bringing together German and US technology, is the first concrete project in an initative started by Foreign Minister Steinmeier and Secretary Rice in the fight against climate change. Later, Steinmeier will hold a speech at Harvard expounding on his views and suggestions for the development of a new transatlantic agenda. And not least, Foreign Minister Steinmeier will have the privilege and pleasure of throwing out the first pitch at the Red Sox-Yankees game at Fenway Park on Saturday night, an excellent opportunity to gain in-depth insight into the American culture and way of life. April 11, 2008 Links
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