US EditionFormer German Foreign Minister Baerbock starts UN job
Annalena Baerbock was elected on June 2 with 167 of 193 votes to lead the UN General Assembly, continuing her international diplomatic influence after leaving German government.
- On Tuesday, Annalena Baerbock starts her role as president of the UN General Assembly, organizing plenary sessions among the UN's 193 member states and will be inaugurated shortly before the 80th general debate for a one-year term.
- Earlier this year, after losing her foreign minister post when Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany, took office, Baerbock was proposed by the old minority government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the UN role.
- Her June election was settled by a secret ballot requested by Russia, and Baerbock faced criticism from more than 300 academics amid 64,522 Palestinian deaths over 23 months.
- As UNGA president, Baerbock has placed human rights at the centre of High-Level Week, amid calls for France and the United Kingdom to uphold UN values at the 80th General Assembly.
- Baerbock's start coincides with a wider shift as the United States retreats and China moves in, silencing civil society and reshaping human rights language at the UN.
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Annalena Baerbock begins her adventure in New York as President of the UN General Assembly: Germany pays her 13,000 euros per month.
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einnews.comFormer German Foreign Minister Baerbock starts UN job
Annalena Baerbock, former Green Party politician and foreign minister, has moved to New York to start her new job on September 9. Not everyone is happy that she will be presiding over the UN General Assembly.
Op ed: US Retreat from Multilateralism: Open Doors for Chinese Repression - The Foreign Policy Centre
The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), opening on Tuesday 9 September 2025 in New York, might mark the end of the UN’s human rights pillar as we know it. The United Nations (UN) is being reshaped: What is unfolding is a strategic campaign to control who gets to speak, what can be said, and which values survive. The withdrawal of the United States (US) from multilateralism has, once again, created space that China is no…
At the start of the 80th United Nations General Assembly, former German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will be sworn in as President on Tuesday (5 p.m. CEST). The Green Party politician will hold the office for one year.
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