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German Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) is photographed as he attends a hearing of a parliamentary committee in Berlin on December 18, 2008. The committee is investigating the role played by two agents of the German Federal Intelligence Service, Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) during the US-led invasion of Iraq.
German Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrives for a hearing of a parliamentary committee in Berlin on December 18, 2008. The committee is investigating the role played by two agents of the German Federal Intelligence Service, Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) during the US-led invasion of Iraq.
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 (L) and Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) listen to the speech of Economy Minister Michael Glos (bottom) during a session of the Bundestag in Berlin October 17, 2008. Germany's Bundestag lower house of parliament approved a 500-billion euro ($673.8 billion) bank rescue package on Friday, leaving only the upper house to back the plan later in the day, with a large majority of 476 out of 576 parliamentarians which voted in support of the package.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) listen to the speech of co-chairman of the German Die Linke party Gregor Gysi (bottom) during a session of the Bundestag in Berlin October 17, 2008. Germany's Bundestag lower house of parliament approved a 500-billion euro ($673.8 billion) bank rescue package on Friday, leaving only the upper house to back the plan later in the day, with a large majority of 476 out of 576 parliamentarians which voted in support of the package.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) listen to the speech of German Free Democratic Party (FDP) leader Guido Westerwelle (C) during a session of the Bundestag in Berlin October 17, 2008. Germany's Bundestag lower house of parliament approved a 500-billion euro ($673.8 billion) bank rescue package on Friday, leaving only the upper house to back the plan later in the day, with a large majority of 476 out of 576 parliamentarians which voted in support of the package.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a session of the Bundestag in Berlin October 17, 2008. Germany's Bundestag lower house of parliament approved a 500-billion euro ($673.8 billion) bank rescue package on Friday, leaving only the upper house to back the plan later in the day, with a large majority of 476 out of 576 parliamentarians which voted in support of the package.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a session of the Bundestag in Berlin October 17, 2008. Germany's Bundestag lower house of parliament approved a 500-billion euro ($673.8 billion) bank rescue package on Friday, leaving only the upper house to back the plan later in the day, with a large majority of 476 out of 576 parliamentarians which voted in support of the package.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) arrive on the second day of a two-day European Union summit at the EU council headquarters in Brussels October 16, 2008. EU leaders were to delay on Thursday a decision on when to restart talks with Russia on a partnership pact, suspended after Russia's incursion into Georgia in August, officials said.
Turkish Nobel Literature Prize winner Orhan Pamuk (C) chats with Turkish President Abdullah Gul (L) and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) during their arrival for the opening ceremony of the Frankfurt book fair, October 14, 2008. The world's largest book fair with its focal theme on Turkish literature will run from October 14 until October 20.
Turkish Nobel Literature Prize winner Orhan Pamuk (C) chats with Turkish President Abdullah Gul (L) and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) during their arrival for the opening ceremony of the Frankfurt book fair, October 14, 2008. The world's largest book fair with its focal theme on Turkish literature will run from October 14 until October 20.
Former UN Secretary General Koffi Annan (C) is flanked by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (R) and Reinhard Zinkann (L), chairman of the Economic Society of Westfalen and Lippe (WWL) after being awarded the Westfaelischer Friedenspreis peace prize for his visions of a peaceful world, on October 11, 2008 in Muenster, western Germany. The 50,000 euros worth prize is awarded every two years for an outstanding personality and a youth organization working for unity and peace in Europe.
MUENSTER, GERMANY - OCTOBER 11: Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan (C) receives the Westphalian Peace Prize in the 'Friedenssaal' during the Westphalian Peace Prize Award on October 11, 2008 in Muenster, Germany. 1648 in the 'Friedenssaal' in the Town Hall the Peace of Westphalia was declared, thus making the end of the Thirty Years War. Muenster keeps alive this historical inheritance with modern work towards peace and understanding.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a debate at the Bundestag, lower house of parliament, over the mandate of Germany's armed forces in Afghanistan in Berlin on October 7, 2008. Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved an extension of German participation in the NATO-led ISAF force in Afghanistan today and added 1,000 more soldiers to the mission, a government spokesman said.