German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Sunday for a crisis meeting of his
European Union counterparts this week to discuss escalating tension in the
Middle East following the killing of a top Iranian military commander in
Iraq by the United States.
"As Europeans, we have tried and tested and resilient channels of communication on all sides, which we must make full use of in this situation," Maas said in a statement.
Maas has proposed to EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell that a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers be brought forward to this week to agree on a common approach.