German embassy in Kyiv reopens with minimal staff
Created: 05/10/2022Updated: 05/10/2022, 2:50 p.m
An exterior view of the German Embassy in Kyiv.
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Several states have already reopened or announced their embassies in the Ukrainian capital.
Now Germany is following suit.
Kyiv - During a visit to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced the reopening of the German embassy in the capital Kyiv this Tuesday.
The work of the embassy will resume with minimal presence, said the Green politician in a joint press conference with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
The embassy will initially have limited operations.
She is very happy that Ambassador Anka Feldhusen can work in Kyiv again.
At the same time, Baerbock announced that in a few days the training of Ukrainian soldiers would begin on the modern Panzerhaubitze 2000, which Germany and the Netherlands would deliver to Ukraine.
Together with German companies, they are also working on ensuring that Ukraine "can get state-of-the-art systems to protect their cities against future attacks".
Baerbock emphasized: “We will continue to support the European, free Ukraine.
Humanitarian, financial, economic, technological, political and energy issues.” This also applies in the long term, she said with a view to the reopening of the embassy.
After a long discussion about visits by German politicians to Ukraine, Baerbock traveled to Kyiv as the first representative of the federal government.
The last delegated members of the German embassy left for Poland on February 25 and continued to work partly from there and partly from Berlin.
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Germany is one of the last western countries to announce the reopening of its embassy in Kyiv.
On Sunday, the United States and Canada announced the return of embassy staff.
Before that, representations of the EU, France, Italy, Great Britain, Austria and other countries had already been reopened in Kyiv.
Only Japan, which has not yet announced the reopening of its embassy, is missing from the group of G7 states of the leading democratic industrial nations.
In addition to the Federal Republic of Germany, the G7 round, in which Germany currently chairs, also includes the NATO states USA, Canada, France, Great Britain and Italy as well as Japan.
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