Disarmament requires trust.

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe.

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.