On the morning of September 20, Li met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier respectively.

9月20日上午，李肇星分别会见了伊朗外长穆塔基和德国外长施泰因迈尔。

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Ms Merkel remains a strong favourite to defeat the SPD candidate (and foreign minister), Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in September.

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Yet for Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, these difficulties are no reason to pull the troops out of Afghanistan.

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Chancellor Merkel's success is also due in part to the weakness of her main challenger, the SPD candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

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