Analena Berbock knows how to land on her feet. It became clear that his Green Party was unlikely to be a part of the next German government, the country’s first women’s foreign minister was already doing a new job.
The United Nations General Assembly chose it on Monday, 2 June. She escaped unopposed to the top location of one year, which is primarily formal importance and mainly organizing plane sessions. The inauguration is scheduled to take place shortly before the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 September – and while the job is limited to one year, it is considered a good stone for the latter roles.
Baerbock’s appointment rubs wings
When Germany’s former Central-Vam government nominated Berbock as the new president of the United Nations General Assembly, a verse that was in the possession of Germany was in queue, a government spokesperson man Stephen Hebstreit said that Berbock was greatly respected and “Hoggly for the job” Hoggly had chosen Hogli. ,
The appointment did not come without some internal complaint: Germany said last year that this wood nominated a very respected diplomatic Helga Schmid for the post. A former member of the Green Party, Schmid is a veteran of the Ministry of External Affairs and was considered an agreement between Iran, the European Union and other states, concluded in 2015.
Berbock responded to criticism, saying that his appointment was “in line with many predecessors who were former Foreign Minister or former Prime Minister.”
Baerbock, still only 44, Foreign Minister Center-Rigat Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU) and Center-Life Social Democratic Party (SPD) described their way for the new government of Germany.
At least rhetoric, Berbock was always committed to the “price-based foreign policy”, she said that she wanted to implement before assuming office. As a Chancellor candidate of the Green Party in 2021, he saw as an outspoken statements about human rights and democratic freedom in China, Belarus, Hungary and Russia.
Berbock in office
But his outspoken later did not go down well when he took over. His ministry was forced to clarify a comment during the Europe’s Council meeting in Strasbourg in January 2023, when, during a call for unity among Western colleagues, he said, in English: “We are fighting war against Russia, not against each.” This was immediately the same by the Russian government when spokesperson Maria Zakharova claimed that there was evidence that the West was “against Russia”.
Then in April 2023, during a press conference with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing, he offered to warn about China’s international ambitions, only who said that “the last thing that China needs is a teacher from West.”
Nor did it help in Chinese-German relations, when in an interview with the US Broadcaster Fox News in September 2023, she prepared Xi Jinping as a “dictator”, which by the Chinese government called the German ambassador to BE.
Overall, the three years of Berbock as Foreign Minister were marked by transient international crises, requiring a tireless work rate: he made a total of 160 trips in his time in his time, some 77 countries-to-face diplomacy was never necessary, he once told the public broadcaster. Ard,
During his time at the office, he showed himself a strong supporter to sing military supply in Ukraine, a country that he visited nine times – including a visit to Ukrainian soldiers on the front.
After the attacks by terrorist group Hamas on 7 October 2023, Berbock attempted to run a line for Israel to express Germany’s continuous support, while trying to negotiate a humanitarian aid for Gaza.
Therefore, a more “feminist” tried to implement foreign policy, something that she expressed by increasing the ratio of women officials in her ministry, as well as in German embassy around the world, one of which led a third.
Berbock emergence
Berbock’s political career was marked by his parents in his youth, which took him to the anti-nuclear demo in the 1980s. On her private website, she describes “touched by injustice worldwide” since her adolescence, stating that early ambitions to be a journalist.
He studied political science and public law in Hamburg, earned a master’s degree in International Law in London School of Economics, and then started a doctorate at Berlin’s Free University, which he broke when he was selected for Bundestag in 2013.
His educational career lasted parallel to a steep political climb. After joining the Green Party at the age of 25, she became the leader of the party in the state of Brandenberg only four years later, while working as a spokesperson of the party’s work group on European affairs and serving as a board member of the European Green Party.
She continued this focus on European affairs in her first term in Bundestag, when she “claims to work hard on forming a German government’s finals to accept his international responsibility as one of the world’s largest economies and to lead the German transition.”
His rise continued in April 2021 when it won an internal strength struggle against his green party co-leader Robert Habec, and became the party’s first candidate in a national election campaign. However, his candidature was reduced, when it was revealed that his ghost writer raised parts of his haste released parts. Although his party’s election results were a disappointment that year, it established him in diplomacy in his curriculum.
Edited by: Reena Goldenburg
The lesson was first published in 2021 and updated to reflect recent news development.
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