BERLIN: Germany's foreign minister Heiko Maas did not tell lawmakers that Germany wants to take part in a British plan for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a ministry spokesman told Reuters on Thursday.
Earlier, media group RND said participants at a meeting of parliament's foreign relations committee quoted Maas as saying: "We want to be there." Contacted by Reuters, the ministry spokesman said: "The minister did not say that."
"It is too early to talk about possible forms of German participation," the spokesman added. "Requests for German military participation were so far not the subject of these talks (with Britain and France)."
A mandate for joining the mission would be voted on in parliament, RND added. There was no immediate comment available from the German Foreign Ministry.
