Germany plans to move two naval vessels from Djibouti to the eastern Mediterranean in the coming days after concluding that conditions are not yet in place for a possible military mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz given the ongoing Iran war, a Defence Ministry spokesman has said.<\/p>\n
The ships, the minehunter Fulda and the supply vessel Mosel, are currently docked in Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden, the spokesman said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Germany sent the vessels to the region to stand by for a possible mine-clearing operation in the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route between The Gulf and the Gulf of Oman that is vital to the global energy trade.<\/p>\n
Shipping traffic in the strait has been severely disrupted since the United States and Israel launched the war against Iran at the end of February.<\/p>\n
The Defence Ministry in Berlin made clear in a statement that it did not expect the volatile political situation to stabilize quickly enough in the near term to allow a mission to secure the route. The ships are to remain on standby in the Mediterranean until a mission start becomes foreseeable, it said.<\/p>\n
Defence Minister Boris Pistorius had already announced in early July that he might bring the ships home in the coming months, given the prolonged uncertainty.<\/p>\n
The conditions for a deployment in the Strait of Hormuz include an agreement on a permanent end to hostilities, the consent of the directly bordering states Iran and Oman, and a legal basis – including approval by German parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany plans to move two naval vessels from Djibouti to the eastern Mediterranean in the coming days after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2242,46761,5,252,46760,5593,5003],"class_list":["post-60063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-defence-ministry","tag-eastern-mediterranean","tag-germany","tag-hormuz","tag-mediterranean","tag-military-mission","tag-naval-vessels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}