Mr Scholz denies using his office to help the private Hamburg-based lender that participated in the Cum-Ex scheme.
Mr Scholz added that North Macedonia had even changed its name in the hope of becoming a member of the EU.
Formerly a province of Serbia, the population of Kosovo is now majority Albanian.
Ukraine said the first weapons would probably not arrive until the end of June.
The online conference will discuss among other things, the ongoing war in Ukraine.
German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, ended a brief visit to Japan on Friday with a tour of a hydrogen plant in the capital Tokyo, local media reported.
Unusual for Mr Scholz to choose Japan as his first travel destination… His predecessors…went to China first.
Badly seeking Asian patronage, Russia, however, admitted that “of course, the European market is premium.”
