Heiko Maas
The U.S. State Department cited the need for collaboration 76 years after the Holocaust when the numbers of survivors are dwindling.
“I described during our meeting that while we’re fighting on various fronts, the true backer of much of this aggression is Iran,” stated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“We must stop the country from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” says Heiko Maas at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies’ annual conference.
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that “no doors should be slammed shut in view of developments in the United States.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi: “Our signatures side by side in the Book of Remembrance is like a shared cry and oath: to remember and not to forget, and to promise never again.”
“I think that’s an opening” for Arab states to allow themselves to establish official ties with Israel, says Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in Berlin, with German counterpart Heiko Maas at his side.
German Foreign Office: “Annexation would be contrary to international law.”
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz tells visiting German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who rejects Jeruslaem’s annexation plans, that all moves “should be promoted in dialogue with global players.”