Germany is sceptical about expanding EUOperation Aspides in the Strait of Hormuz
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Sunday that he was sceptical about a potential widening of the European Union’s Aspides naval mission to the Strait of Hormuz.
Wadephul said that the mission to help commercial shipments pass through the Red Sea was “not effective”.
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“And that is why I am very sceptical that extending Aspides to the Strait of Hormuz would provide greater security,” he said in an interview on Germany’s ARD broadcaster.
Reference Link:- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-sceptical-about-expanding-euoperation-aspides-strait-hormuz-2026-03-15/
Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
