Media: Merkel wants to make the " Petersburg dialogue " platform for opponents of Russia
The German chief of Department forum " Petersburg dialogue " Lothar de m?zi?res can leave your own post, and the forum want to reform " For discussion of the limiting nature of Russian politics, the founder of this is German Chancellor Angela Merkel, write German media. " Petersburg dialogue " is a Russian-German public forum, which are overseen by the coordinating Department. The German Committee is headed by the last Head of the Council of Ministers of the GDR Lothar de m?zi?res, the Russian ex-Prime Minister of Russia Viktor Zubkov. Traditionally, the forum was held parallel to the German-Russian intergovernmental consultations, which this year were cancelled on the background of Ukrainian events and deteriorating relations between Russia and Germany, RIA " Novosti ". According to the journal, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung referring to the General document of the Federal Chancellery and the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Germany, the forum need new leadership. Berlin insists that in the future the forum must become " a platform For discussion of the limiting nature of Russian politics." In addition, according to the plan of Berlin in the forum must be more empowered civil society. This will require a new Charter and a new Board. According to Spiegel, about these plans at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Germany last week said the Chancellor. In her vision, the forum should be separated from the other activities of the German-Russian organization " German-Russian forum, which is headed by a trusted leader, the German foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier - Matthias Platzeck. In prosesi Tuesday magazine Passauer Neue Presse published an Interview with Platzeck, in which he said that the authorities in Kiev is unlikely to have the opportunity to count after all events in the Donbass to return in the near future under its own supervision of Lugansk and Donetsk. Platzeck said that the annexation of Crimea to Russia must be formalized and legalized with the position of international law so that it will be acceptable To all ". In his vision, there are different possibilities. In view of such possibilities, he called financial payments or repetition of a referendum under the supervision of the OSCE. The interview has become a cause For the waves of opponents in Germany. On the next day, the press service of " German-Russian forum issued a statement clarifying the wording of Platzeck. It was emphasized that Platzeck in no case did not have in mind the need for " recognition of the annexation of the Crimea ". Merkel in this position, write the media sided with the critics who propose to reform the " Petersburg dialogue " in order to change its leadership, thereby separating dialogue from " German-Russian forum ". Both publications say that the German chief of Department de m?zi?res can leave your own post.