GERMAN GREEN PARTY LEADERS KUENAST, KUHN AND PARLIAMENTARY FACTION LEADER MUELLER DURING PART MEETING IN WOERLITZ.


Fritz Kuhn (L), German Green party leader points as he talks to his counter part and Federal Minister for Agriculture-designate Renate Kuenast (C) and parliamentary faction leader Kerstin Mueller as they arrive for a party meeting of the parliamentary faction in Woerlitz, about 160 kilometres south of Berlin, January 11, 2001 to discuss a successor for Kuenast as party leader. Kuenast was named agriculture minister by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder replacing Karl-Heinz Funke, who stepped down as the Federal Minister for Agriculture in Berlin, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2001, over mishandling of Germany's escalating mad cow disease crisis.