BERLIN, March 17 (Xinhuanet) -- High-ranking German officials on
Sunday reiterated their reservations about Washington's intention
to launch a military strike against Iraq.
   Speaking at the congress of the German Green Party, Foreign
Minister Joschka Fischer said he saw the reports of the U.S.
intention with "great concerns" and that there would be no "
majority in the Bundestag (lower house of German parliament)" to
support Germany's participation in such a military action.
   Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping, in an interview published in
the "Tagesspiegel," said that the best way to prevent Bagdad's
efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction is to let U.N.
inspectors return to Iraq. Therefore, he added, it was necessary
to put as much as possible political pressure on Iraq.
   Wolfgang Gehrke, a foreign policy spokesman for the Party of
Democratic Socialism (PDS), called on the Germans to demonstrate
their protest against possible U.S. action when U.S. President
George W. Bush visits Berlin on May 22-23.
   Earlier this week, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Germany
would not participate in U.S. military action against Iraq if it
was unsanctioned by the United Nations.  Enditem