Schröer: No German Troops in Iraq

Chancellor Schröer

German Chancellor Gerhard Schröer ruled out the possibility of deploying German Armed Forces in Iraq.  Germany?s position on this issue won?t change; the German Government won?t send soldiers into Iraq, Schröer said on the evening of October 13 following a meeting in Rome with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Schröer specifically stated: ?No one in the German Government, including the German defense minister, is considering changing the position on Iraq.?

Government Spokesman Thomas Steg had already said earlier in Berlin:  ?There will be no German soldiers in Iraq.? Steg went on to say, Schröer made clear in a Cabinet meeting that this position remains valid: ?It is valid today, and it will remain valid in the future.?

October 13, 2004

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