Frequent international meetings are needed more than ever at a time like this.

The E4 countries’ meeting with four regional partners in Istanbul, the G20 summit just over a week ago in Atlanta, the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Warsaw last Friday, and now a G7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Paris prove that diplomatic efforts are in full swing.

Germany is a member of all these bodies, and we make use of our role to safeguard European interests.

With regard to the Iran conflict, that means concrete negotiations now and no new military escalation.

And in terms of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, it means that Europe must be part of the search for a solution. That is why, along with France and the United Kingdom, we will be presenting Europe’s positions. It is very clear that Europe does not need a new security architecture, as Russia is trying to make us believe, but rather quite simply the restoration of the existing security architecture.

This includes the Helsinki Final Act, the Charter of Paris and the Budapest Memorandum, all of which aim to guarantee all borders and the sovereign equality of all states. All of this is vital for the revival of the global economy, a key task for the seven democracies with the strongest economies in the world.