Steinmeier: world needs G8, not G7Europe needs Russia to come back in G8, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.“We need Russia to settle the frozen conflicts in Europe, Syria, Iraq, and Libya and also in dealing with issue of the Iranian nuclear program,” Steinmeier told the German newspaper Neue Ostanbrücker Zeitung.Steinmeier said that using political and economic pressure against Russia made no sense and underscored the need for a dialogue to look for ways out of the "dangerous crisis in Ukraine", RIA Novosti reports.
Europe needs Russia to come back to the G8, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.
"We need Russia to settle the frozen conflicts in Europe, Syria, Iraq and Libya, and also in dealing with the issue of the Iranian nuclear program," Steinmeier told the German newspaper Neue Ostanbrücker Zeitung.
Steinmeier said that using political and economic pressure against Russia made no sense and underscored the need for a dialogue to look for ways out of the "dangerous crisis in Ukraine", RIA Novosti reports.
