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Omid Nouripour
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Green leader Omid Nouripour sees a need for discussion within the SPD after the controversial statements by SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich about freezing the war in Ukraine.
The SPD party conference resolution on this issue in December was completely different from what Mützenich last said, said Nouripour on Sunday in the ARD program “Report from Berlin”.
"The Social Democrats, especially Lars Klingbeil, the party leader, have done a lot in the last two years to collect and update the wrong Russia policy of the past few years."
In the Bundestag debate on Thursday about the possible delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, Mützenich criticized the fact that some questions were already being described as an "eyesore."
"Isn't it time that we not only talk about how to fight a war, but also think about how we can freeze a war and end it later?" asked the SPD politician.
After the Russian attack on Ukraine, the SPD was accused of having underestimated the security risk posed by Russia for a long time.
The 2021 election manifesto said: "Peace in Europe cannot be against Russia, but only with Russia." With the party congress resolution in December, this sentence was turned into the opposite: "As long as nothing fundamentally changes in Russia, Europe's security from Russia will be reduced have to be organized.«
Nouripour now criticized that freezing means “we simply ignore the devastating human rights violations that are already taking place in the occupied territories.
And the people of Ukraine don't deserve that."
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