Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischeris a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. He served as Foreign Minister and as Vice Chancellor of Germany in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder from 1998 to 2005. Fischer has been a leading figure in the West German Greens since the 1970s, and according to opinion polls, he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the government's duration. Following the September 2005 election, in which the Schröder government was defeated, he left...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 April 1948
CountryGermany
Solutions must be based on compromises.
A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
Everybody is talking today about the economy.
There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.
I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.
The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.
We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi.
We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.
The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.
We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework.
There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.
We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.
We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!
the pressure of relationships makes this reform necessary.