Baku. TurkicWorld
Germany will provide an additional 8 million euros ($8.4 million) in humanitarian aid for Syria, increase its presence in the country and make State Minister Tobias Lindner its representative there, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Wednesday.
"We see a moment of hope," she said presenting an eight-point-action plan, but added that the situation was "anything but stable", TurkicWorld reports referencing Al-Awsat.
The return of Syrian refugees must be coordinated with partners in Europe and the United Nations, she said.
Meanwhile, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that the developments in Syria demonstrate that countries with a strategic partnership with Russia can rely on Moscow only as long as they are of use to President Vladimir Putin,
During a short visit to Jordan, Pistorius made a stop-over at the Al-Azraq air base on his way to Baghdad where he will discuss ways to help stabilize the region in the light of the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The minister did not specify what the developments will mean for Germany's involvement in the region but said that its military missions in the Middle East, which include some 600 troops, would rather be ramped up than reduced.
As part of a US-led coalition of some 70 countries, Germany has had troops in Iraq since 2015 to assist local forces trying to prevent a resurgence of ISIS which in 2014 seized large swaths of Iraq and Syria but was later pushed back.
The Jordanian base Al-Azraq is used as logistics hub for the mission, and the German air force is launching air-to-air refueling missions from there.
Germany has also deployed some 300 troops to the UNIFIL peacekeeping mission that monitors the demarcation line with Israel, an area that has seen more than a year of hostilities between Israeli troops and Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters.
