The German Foreign Ministry previously made it clear that the country advocated for the preservation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty after US President Donald Trump announced that Washington would withdraw from the agreement over alleged violations by Russia.
German parties, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD), will put the United States' envisaged withdrawal from the INF treaty with Russia high on the agenda at a Tuesday meeting of the coalition committee.
EU Hoping INF Treaty May Still Be Salvaged — Mogherini
In an interview with the German-language daily newspaper Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, Rolf Mützenich, a member of the SPD, warned that Washington's unilateral decision may lead to the deployment of US intermediate-range missiles on German soil.
Even if the treaty falls apart, “Germany must not become the venue of nuclear war games. We will not agree to the deployment of new US medium-range missiles,” Mützenich stressed.
The MP elaborated that “we must do everything we can to ensure that thinking in nuclear categories does not return.”
“There is no military gap between the US and Russia, as some claim again and again,” he said.
Speaking at a conference in Germany last week, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the bloc had no plans to deploy new missiles in Europe:
“NATO has no intention…
