German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/56,
p. 6179.
Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
Let me at the beginning over and over again quite clearly
say: The AfD delegation most sharply condemns Russia's war against the Ukraine.
We have ever again given expression to this, here in plenary session as well as
in the committees. This war is dreadful for all people participating; it
produces unspeakable suffering and indeed on
both sides. Each additional day of this war brings with it much suffering and
death. We therefore must do all that is sensible so that this military
confrontation stops as soon as possible.
The way by which the Union wants to go with its motion for
ever more intensive weapons deliveries is however wrong.
It leads directly to additional military escalation and it
contradicts the decades-long, established strategy of Germany to deliver no
weapons to areas of acute crisis. Those who want to walk along this incendiary
path sadly do not know what they in reality are thereby preparing. They believe
that Russian President Putin is meantime “weakened”, it soon comes to an “overthrow”
there, and then all will be good again. I recommend to these oblivious ones an
interview appearing yesterday with Professor Baberowski who is one of the most
renowned German historians of eastern Europe. He in all clarity said that the
ranks around Putin have meanwhile closed and the war aims will adhered to with
more determination by the Russian government the greater is the affliction from
outside. Thus as the military pressure which the NATO states build up in favor
of the non-NATO member Ukraine becomes greater, the more incalculable will be
the reaction, to the point of a nuclear dimension which needs be urgently
prevented.
So as to not now allow the war to further escalate but to
end it as quickly as possible, the hour of diplomacy has now come.
Sara Nanni
(Greens): Diplomacy for six months, 24 hours a day! It hasn’t worked!
Götz Frömming (AfD): Weapons, weapons, weapons!
Today we have a Foreign Minister who flatters herself in
rhetorical rearmament. Russia will be “ruined” by means of the sanctions – thus
for example spoke Frau Baerbock with complete self-assurance to the running
cameras. Oddly enough, the energy prices for us nevertheless climb to the
unmeasurable while energy concerns in Russia take in record profits.
We of the AfD are committed to diplomacy. The resolution
motion put forward by the CDU/CSU is drawn up for military escalation. In your
motion, valued colleagues, on scarcely two and a half pages, the words ‘weapons”
or “weapons systems” are to be read 19 times – 7 times the formulation is “heavy
weapons” – yet not a single time the so important word of diplomacy. How can
that be? In this regard, the aim of diplomatic efforts must be to bring about
an immediate end of combat operations followed by peace negotiations for a long-term,
stable co-existence of Russia and the Ukraine.
Instead of a further escalation, we desire a peace
initiative – you could for once propose that to the Federal government – for example
in the context of the OSCE as well as of humanitarian assistance.
Sara Nanni (Greens): Spoken with the OSCE?
Let us do everything so as to reconstruct peace in Europe!
Many hearty thanks.
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