Foto: Reiner Voß / view – die agentur /Staatskanzlei RLP.
18-19 September 2019, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany: According to the established tradition, Germany’s Federal President Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier invited the corps diplomatique accredited to the Federal Republic of Germany to a jaunt meant to discover this time around the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
The German Head of State was joined by Rhineland-Palatinate’s head of government Premier Malu Dreyer, the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Archbishop Dr. Nikola Eterović as well as the chiefs of international organisations based in Germany.
The top diplomatic delegation encompassed approximately 200 delegates were guided through Mainz, the Hunsrück mountain range and National Park as well as the Moselle vineyards, wherein the delegates were treated to wines and culinary specialities from the region.
Guests based in Berlin where specially flown in to Rhineland-Palatinate on a Bundeswehr (Federal Armed Forces) aircraft. They particularly enjoyed the mild, luminous climate as well as the well-wishers that greeted them along their path.
Rhineland-Palatinate holds a population of 4,5 million inhabitants, being the seventh-most populous German state. Mainz is the state capital and largest city, while other major cities include Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Koblenz, Trier, Kaiserslautern, and Worms. The state borders France, Luxembourg and Belgium.
For further information
Federal Presidency of Germany: http://www.bundespraesident.de/DE/Home/home_node.html#-gallery
2018 visit to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen: https://diplomatmagazine.eu/2018/07/03/diplomatic-corps-to-germany-on-jaunt-to-bremen/
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