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German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier arrives for a foreign ministers meeting at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels on December 2, 2008, in Brussels. NATO foreign ministers will endeavour to overcome divisions about the best strategy for dealing with Russia and just how far to open the door to former Soviet Georgia and Ukraine. The ministers, meeting almost four months after Russia's war with Georgia, appear certain to back away from offering the two hopefuls a fast-track to join the world's biggest military alliance, despite intense US lobbying.
German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier speaks to journalists as he arrives for a foreign ministers meeting at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels on December 2, 2008, in Brussels. NATO foreign ministers will endeavour to overcome divisions about the best strategy for dealing with Russia and just how far to open the door to former Soviet Georgia and Ukraine. The ministers, meeting almost four months after Russia's war with Georgia, appear certain to back away from offering the two hopefuls a fast-track to join the world's biggest military alliance, despite intense US lobbying.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks at a model with solar panels of Bremen's football stadion (Weserstadion) with the CEO of energy provider EWE Thomas Neuber, on the sidelines of the annual congress of the Christian Democrats Union (CDU) party in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on December 2, 2008. The day before, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was reelected as CDU chairwoman and sought to slap down critics at the start of the two-day convention resisting calls for broad-based tax cuts to get Europe's biggest economy moving again.
Congolese Army soldiers check a truck heading to the frontline on December 2, 2008 at the Kibati camp outside the provincial capital Goma, in the eastern North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Fighting in eastern DRC between followers of renegade Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda and the army has displaced more than 250,000 people and left more than 100 civilians dead, according to UN and private aid agencies.