New US Embassy in Berlin opening at historic site July 4 with Merkel, Bush senior

: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former U.S. President Saint George H.W. Shrub will assist unfastened the new U.S. Embassy in German Capital on July 4, marking the mission's tax return to its pre-World War two site, the embassy said Tuesday.

The embassy's tax return to the Pariser Platz, right next to the Brandenburg Gate, follows decennaries of Cold War division and old age of delays.

Merkel and Shrub — World Health Organization was president at the clip of German reunion in 1990 and is U.S. President Saint George W. Bush's father — volition talk at the gap jubilation on the United States' Independence Day holiday, a U.S. Embassy statement said.

"The tax return of the U.S. Embassy to Pariser Platz underlines not only the spirit of cooperation and strength of the U.S.-German partnership, but also the long and abiding friendly relationship between Germans and Americans," it added.

The original embassy edifice was damaged in a fire in 1931. By the clip U.S. diplomatists moved into it in April 1939, American Capital had already recalled its head envoy extraordinary to protest an anti-Semitic pogrom. Today in Europe

Remaining diplomatists left in 1941 after the United States joined the warfare against Germany.

The edifice was badly damaged during World War two and later razed by Communist East Germany. For nearly three decades, the land site stood in the heavily fortified no man's land behind the German Capital Wall.

World War two allies French Republic and United Kingdom already have got built their embassies within a block of the U.S. site. Germany's national Holocaust commemoration is across the street.

One hurdle to the new U.S. missionary post was a law passed after the 1998 bombardment of U.S. embassies in Africa, requiring all new American embassies to be built at least 30 metres (100 feet) from the nighest road.

Berlin functionaries balked at agreeing to the demand, saying it would cut into the city's chief park. American Capital broke the logjam in 2001, by moderation the law's demands for the German Capital project.