Dependable

Dependable, experienced, shining and humorous: colleagues in a universe of politics and other long-time companions conclude a many qualities of Germany’s new Federal President, who was inaugurated on 12 February. The Germans have famous a SPD politician for many years. Until a finish of January, Frank-Walter Steinmeier was a country’s Federal Foreign Minister, an bureau in that he perceived a good understanding of recognition.

Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel

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“Frank-Walter Steinmeier is a claimant who will have a support of really many citizens. People clarity what those us who have worked with him for many years know: he is a male they can trust.”

Joachim Gauck, former Federal President, 2012 to 18.03.2017

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“The name Frank-Walter Steinmeier will sojourn related with German unfamiliar policy. It stands for a diligence to continue to negotiate, to intercede and to persuade.” According to Gauck, Steinmeier showed this diligence not usually in a negotiations with Iran, though also in a intervention efforts between a warring parties in Ukraine. “Speechlessness is a genocide of diplomacy,” Steinmeier remade this discernment into a maxim.

Gerhard Schröder, former Federal Chancellor, 1998 to 2005

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“In these formidable times we can make good use of general experience, that he truly has. The right male during a right time! He is a really fit workman and has a singular multiple of domestic instinct, good communication skills and a shining authorised mind.”

John Kerry, former Secretary of State of a United States, 2013 to 2017

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“In a box of a chief agreement with Iran he done a vital grant to bringing together a demure partners. Frank had a really good feeling for where we could make concessions and where we had to sojourn firm. It was intensely difficult. It was good there to have an ally, a partner, who did not constantly pull himself to a fore, though who sensitively worked on implementing a plan.”

Jean Asselborn, Foreign Minister of Luxembourg

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“He was one of a few who were also means to spin a instruction of a discuss in a Council. He has a energy of persuasion.”

Brigitte Zypries, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and a good crony of Steinmeier’s given tyro days

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“Steinmeier was somebody with whom we could have really good and critical discussions during that time. Meanwhile, everybody substantially knows we can suffer a good giggle with him too.”

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