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Germany's Ambassador to the United Nations Peter Wittig (C) and India's Ambassador to the UN Hardeep Singh Puri (R) vote to abstain the UN Security Council Libya resolution calling for a no-fly, March 17, 2011, UN headquarters, New York.
Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011

Open quoteIt's unthinkable that one day Germany should be the savior of Europe and the backbone of the economic union and the next the funeral director of alliance politics.Close quote

  • STEFAN KORNELIUS,
  • foreign editor of a German daily newspaper, on the country's abstention from the U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing military action in Libya
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