Germany mourns leading statesman Hans-Dietrich Genscher

Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the long-serving German foreign minister who was one of the key architects of the country’s 1990 reunification, has died aged 89.

Mr Genscher died on Thursday evening, at his home outside Bonn, surrounded by family.

“He was a statesman who influenced the fate of Germany like few others. He was a great European and a great German,” government spokesman, Georg Streiter, told reporters in Berlin.