The German cabinet of ministers wants to have stable relations with Russia, both countries have a long list of issues to discuss, German Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock said on Monday before traveling for talks to Kiev and Moscow.
"During my talks in Moscow it will be important to me to indicate [our] position. The new federal government wants thorough and stable relations with Russia. The list of conflict issues that we need to discuss is long," she said. Speaking of important bilateral subjects, she listed science, culture, trade, renewable energy sources and climate issues.
"Cooperation between civic communities is particularly important to us. I also want to talk to my Russian colleague about these opportunities and how we can create the conditions to use them more effectively," the German top diplomat said. That said, she specified that she will "attentively listen to [her] interlocutors both in Moscow and in Kiev." "Yet I will also very clearly explain the position we hold together in the EU, the G7 and in the transatlantic alliance," she emphasized.
