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...doesn't embrace and act on the Quartet's demands, the stalemate will continue. Early this morning, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke with other Quartet representatives - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, EU security policy chief Javier Solana, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner- via secure telephone conference call. In a statement issued later in the day, the group reaffirmed its principles, adopted a wait-and-see stance on the unity government plan and called a Quartet strategy session for Feb. 21 in Berlin...
...balance civil liberties with security. Allegations surfaced recently, for instance, that the former Social Democratic government of Gerhard Schröder deliberately left German-born Turkish national Murat Kurnaz in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay despite the absence of evidence against him. Current Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was Schröder's chief of staff at the time, says he acted appropriately with the knowledge available to him then...
...quiet some of those concerns. So, too, did her allowance, unusual for a Bush Administration member, that the U.S. may have made mistakes in the course of pursuing its war on terror. But the reports are putting pressure on some erstwhile allies. Germany's new foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and its former Interior Minister, Otto Schily, could face parliamentary investigations for failing to reveal that they knew about a German national, Khaled el-Masri, who German prosecutors say was abducted allegedly by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity and flown to Afghanistan where he was imprisoned...
...wonder governments have been more circumspect in their response. After the new German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, discussed the matter with Rice in Washington earlier this week, his boss, new German Chancellor Angela Merkel, took the carrot approach where her predecessor might have preferred the stick. "I think we can trust ... that the US government is taking European concerns seriously," she told parliament, "and that quite soon (it) will clarify the recent reports on alleged CIA prisons." British Foreign Minister Jack Straw, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, formally asked Rice to address "parliamentary and public concerns" over...