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People & Politics | A World Free of Nuclear Weapons?

244 views · Published 17 April 2009 · 5:03 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: DW News · 2009 · News & Politics

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Something unheard of happened in Germany at this year's traditional Easter peace marches: participants took up the slogan of an American president. Just as Barack Obama did this month in Prague,they called for a world without nuclear weapons. Obama's initiative has been well-received in Germany. Politicians of all political stripes support his vision -- Social Democrat Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier,the leader of the Liberal Free Democrat,FDP,Guido Westerwelle and of course the Left Party. The only exception is the Christian Democrats. They want the few American missiles still stored in the Eifel region to remain there as a nuclear deterrent.

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