{"id":672599,"date":"2022-04-13T19:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/?p=672599"},"modified":"2022-04-13T19:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:13:21","slug":"kyiv-wants-scholz-visit-and-german-arms-zelensky-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2022\/04\/kyiv-wants-scholz-visit-and-german-arms-zelensky-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholz &#8216;irritated&#8217; by Kyiv&#8217;s snub to German president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_662625\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-662625\" class=\"size-full wp-image-662625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/0b192169b58eef567a9a9c2120398bed832479e7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/0b192169b58eef567a9a9c2120398bed832479e7.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2022\/02\/0b192169b58eef567a9a9c2120398bed832479e7-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-662625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scholz, left, and Zelensky held talks in Kyiv on February 14, 10 days before the start of the war &copy; <b>AFP \/ SERGEI SUPINSKY<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>Berlin (AFP), Apr 13 &#8211; <\/i>Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday he was &#8220;irritated&#8221; by Kyiv&#8217;s rejection of a proposed visit by Germany&#8217;s president, a snub that has ruffled diplomatic feathers at a time when the war-hit nation is seeking more weapons from Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian presidency has instead said it wants to welcome Scholz to Kyiv, but the chancellor indicated he had no plans to visit anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by RBB public radio when he would follow in the footsteps of other EU leaders and travel to Kyiv, Scholz dodged the question and stressed his &#8220;very regular&#8221; phone calls with President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin has reacted with dismay to President Frank-Walter Steinmeier&#8217;s revelation on Tuesday that he had offered to visit Ukraine, but Kyiv had told him he was &#8220;not wanted&#8221; right now.<\/p>\n<p>The move against Steinmeier &#8212; a former foreign minister who recently acknowledged &#8220;errors&#8221; in a too conciliatory stance toward Moscow in the past &#8212; was widely seen as a diplomatic affront in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Scholz said he was &#8220;irritated, to put it politely&#8221;, noting that Steinmeier had strongly condemned Russia&#8217;s aggression. &#8220;It would have been good to receive him,&#8221; he told RBB.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8216;Direct decisions&#8217; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovych told German public television on Wednesday it had not been Zelensky&#8217;s intention to offend Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the main argument was different &#8212; our president expects the chancellor, so that he (Scholz) can take direct practical decisions, including weapons deliveries,&#8221; he told broadcaster ZDF.<\/p>\n<p>The German president has a largely ceremonial role while the chancellor heads the government.<\/p>\n<p>The spat comes as Scholz is facing growing pressure to step up support for Ukraine in the face of the seven-week-old Russian invasion which has cost the lives of thousands of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Arestovych said the fate of the strategic port city of Mariupol and the civilian population of eastern Ukraine &#8220;depends on the German weapons we could get&#8221;, but that have not been promised.  <\/p>\n<p>Time is of the essence because &#8220;every minute that a tank doesn&#8217;t arrive&#8230; it is our children who are dying, being raped, being killed&#8221;, Arestovych said. <\/p>\n<p>The German political class &#8220;has seen the terrible images&#8221; of the war which he said recalled the destruction of Berlin in 1945. What the Russian army is doing in Ukraine &#8220;isn&#8217;t any different&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Spiral of escalation &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Scholz, like Steinmeier a Social Democrat, initially responded to the Russian onslaught by promising a dramatic about-face in German defence and foreign policy including a massive increase in military spending.<\/p>\n<p>But he has thus far refused, primarily for historical reasons, to send heavy weapons to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Germany has until now sent defensive arms including anti-tank weapons, missile launchers and surface-to-air missiles in response to the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The stance has sharpened tensions within Scholz&#8217;s government, with ministers from the co-ruling Green party urging additional weapons deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is only one person who can point the way and that is Chancellor Olaf Scholz,&#8221; said Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, head of the defence committee in the lower house of parliament and a leading deputy from the Free Democrats, the third party in Scholz&#8217;s coalition.<\/p>\n<p>However members of the Social Democrats indicated their opposition to stepping up arms supplies to Ukraine, warning of a spiral of escalation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we deliver heavy weapons, then we quickly face the question whether German training teams or volunteers from Germany to run the weapons systems are necessary,&#8221; MP Joe Weingarten told daily Die Welt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin (AFP), Apr 13 &#8211; Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday he was &#8220;irritated&#8221; by Kyiv&#8217;s rejection of a proposed visit by Germany&#8217;s president, a snub that has ruffled diplomatic feathers at a time when the war-hit nation is seeking more weapons from Berlin. 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