![]() ![]() ![]() Secretary of State Antony Blinken made reference to the 374-year-old document at an event with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, saying Russia’s actions in Ukraine are a direct attack on the concepts of national sovereignty and territorial integrity that many believe the treaty established. The significance of the venue - the same room in which the Treaty of Westphalia ending Europe’s bloody 30 Years War was signed in 1648 - was not lost on the participants, some of whom commented on the relevance of the principles it enshrined in international diplomacy. MUENSTER, Germany (AP) - Top diplomats from the world’s major industrialized democracies sought Thursday to expand unified positions on Russia’s war in Ukraine, China’s growing global economic clout and Iran’s crackdown on anti-government protestors.įoreign ministers from the Group of Seven nations began two days of talks in the historic western German city of Muenster to take stock of the war in Ukraine and keep up economic, military and other support for the country more than eight months after Russia’s invasion and as winter approaches.
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