German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the country will strongly oppose any move to station new medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe if a key Cold War-era arms control treaty is scrapped. "Under no circumstances should Europe become a stage for a rearmament debate. Stationing of new medium-range missiles would be met with broad resistance in Germany," he said.
The United States has threatened to pull out of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The treaty currently bans Moscow and Washington from stationing short and intermediate-range, land-based missiles in Europe.
After US plans to withdraws from the treaty, Russia has said it was planning for a US deployment of new nuclear missiles in Europe Germany's Maas said: "Nuclear rearmament is most certainly the wrong answer."
