German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Wednesday assured NATO ally Poland that Germany’s Bundeswehr armed forces stand ready to defend its eastern neighbour.<\/p>\n
When asked in an interview with Germany’s Deutsche Welle and Polish broadcaster TVP whether Poland could rely on Germany’s help in the event of Russian aggression, Wadephul replied: “We will not hesitate for a second.”<\/p>\n
“If NATO territory is attacked – and, in case of doubt, this is only about Russia – then German soldiers will immediately defend every centimetre. That is a commitment. And that is completely clear,” he added.<\/p>\n
Wadephul emphasized the close partnership with Poland, which is also reflected in a military agreement signed on Wednesday. The two countries, he said, share a common task in defending Europe against the Russian threat. “We stand together. And we will not allow ourselves to be divided.”<\/p>\n
Responding to Poland’s fears of being sidelined in any potential negotiations with Russia on ending the war in Ukraine within the so-called E3 format – comprising Germany, France and the United Kingdom – Wadephul said that this format would not take a single step without Poland’s consent.<\/p>\n
According to the German government, the new military agreement emphasizes the commitment to mutual assistance within the framework of the European Union and NATO.<\/p>\n
Poland and Germany also intend to cooperate more closely on the development of military capabilities and in the defence industry. Furthermore, joint military exercises are to be held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Wednesday assured NATO ally Poland that Germany’s Bundeswehr armed forces stand ready…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1882,1880,1881,32,1879,7,197],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-centimetre","tag-federal-foreign-office","tag-german-polish","tag-germany","tag-johann-wadephul","tag-nato","tag-poland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}