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Anonymous ID: 9e0e3a May 7, 2019, 7:21 a.m. No.6436711   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6738 >>6980

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo abruptly cancels trip to Germany

POSTED 8:25 AM, MAY 7, 2019, BY CNN WIRE

 

https://fox61.com/2019/05/07/secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-abruptly-cancels-trip-to-germany/

 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo abruptly canceled a scheduled trip to Germany where he was planning to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel “due to pressing issues,” the State Department said early Tuesday.

 

No specific reason was given for the cancellation. The press pool traveling with Pompeo has not been told where they are going next, and have been warned they may not be able to report from the country they are going to until after they leave.

 

“Unfortunately, we must reschedule the Berlin meetings due to pressing issues. We look forward to rescheduling this important set of meetings. The Secretary looks forward to being in Berlin soon,” State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said, according to the press pool traveling with Pompeo.

 

The secretary, who was in the midst of an oversees trip, was due to meet Tuesday with Merkel and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas about “issues of mutual concern,” including Russia, China and Syria, according to the State Department.

 

Maas’ office said in a statement Tuesday that he had spoken to Pompeo by phone and that the two “agreed to quickly find a new date for a meeting.”

 

The sudden schedule change comes two days after the Pentagon deployed a carrier and a bomber task force to the Middle East in order to send a message to Iran, which the Trump administration has recently been putting pressure on. Pompeo said Sunday night that the deployments have been in the works for “a little while” and that the US will “hold the Iranians accountable for attacks on American interests.”

 

The cancellation also comes amid news that President Donald Trump, who is urging caution among senior advisers about potential US military intervention in Venezuela, is growing frustrated that some aides are openly teasing military action in the country, where a battle for power has recently intensified.

 

Last week, Pompeo told Fox News that “military action is possible. If that’s what’s required, that’s what the United States will do.”

 

On his trip, Pompeo was set to travel to London, Rovaniemi, Finland, and Nuuk, Greenland, in addition to the now-canceled stop in Berlin.

Anonymous ID: 9e0e3a May 7, 2019, 8:03 a.m. No.6436980   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>6436711

Pompeo was headed to Rovaniemi.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovaniemi

 

Seems like an odd place to stop.

 

Rovaniemi's most prominent landmarks include the Jätkänkynttilä bridge with its eternal flame over the Kemijoki river, the Arktikum House which rises out of the bank of the Ounasjoki river, the Rovaniemi Town Hall, the Lappia House which serves as a theatre, concert hall and congress centre, and the library. The last three mentioned buildings are by the famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Rovaniemi is considered by Finns to be the official home town of Santa Claus,[9][10][11] and is home to the Santa Claus Village at the Arctic Circle and Santa Park, which is located 8 km (5 mi) north of the centre. The Arktikum is a very comprehensive museum of Finland's and the world's Arctic regions.

 

Rovaniemi (Finnish: [ˈroʋɑniemi] (About this soundlisten)) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland's northernmost province, Lapland. It is situated about 6 kilometres (4 miles) south of the Arctic Circle and is between the hills of Ounasvaara and Korkalovaara, at the confluence of the river Kemijoki and its tributary, the Ounasjoki. The city and the surrounding Rovaniemen maalaiskunta (Rural municipality of Rovaniemi) were consolidated into a single entity on 1 January 2006. The new municipality has an area of 8,016.75 square kilometres (3,095.28 sq mi), thus making it the largest city in the European Union by land. Rovaniemi has an approximate population of 63,000. Rovaniemi is a unilingual Finnish-speaking municipality and uncommonly for larger Finnish towns, it is also known by its Finnish name and spelling in the Swedish language.

 

Second World War

Main article: Battle of Rovaniemi

File:Rebuilding Rovaniemi in 1949.webm

Rebuilding Rovaniemi in 1949

During the Second World War, Finland signed the Moscow Armistice and found itself involved in the Lapland War with its former German ally. Retreating German forces utilised scorched earth tactics, and though initially German General Lothar Rendulic ordered only the public buildings in Rovaniemi to be destroyed, on 13 October 1944 the German army received orders to destroy all the buildings in Rovaniemi, only excluding hospitals and houses where inhabitants were present.[6] While the German rear guard was going about the destruction, an ammunition train in Rovaniemi station exploded and set fire to the wooden houses of the town. The German troops suffered many casualties, mainly from glass splinters. A Finnish commando unit claimed to have blown up the ammunition train and may well have been the primary cause of the town's ruin. The cause was then unknown and generally assumed to be the deliberate intent of Rendulic.[citation needed] During these hostilities 90% of all the buildings in Rovaniemi were destroyed.[7] There is a German cemetery 19 km from Rovaniemi where soldiers killed fighting in Lapland during the war are buried.