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17.10.2024 Article

Advocating transformation in Russia and Belarus

We engage in dialogue with exiled activists through round tables organised by the Federal Government’s central point of contact for Belarusian and Russian democratic civil society abroad.

Round table with Belarusian cultural professionals in exile
24.06.2024 Article

Ukraine, the Middle East, Georgia and the Western Balkans – a full agenda at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg

As the EU foreign ministers meet in Luxembourg today, they have a particularly full agenda. Read on for more details on what Foreign Minister Baerbock and Minister of State Lührmann will be discussing.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the EU Foreign Affairs Council
08.01.2024 Article

Reviewing the human rights situation – Germany in the Human Rights Council’s UPR process

The human rights situation in all United Nations Member States is regularly checked by means of the Universal Periodic Review process. On 9 November 2023, human rights in Germany were reviewed.

Article 1 of the Basic Law states that Human dignity shall be inviolable.
09.08.2023 Article

Fraudulent presidential elections in Belarus: three years on

Three years have passed since hundreds of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets to call peacefully for their rights to be upheld. Specifically, their right for their votes to count. Germany continues to support the people of Belarus in their pursuit of democracy and freedom.

Protests in Minsk following the presidential elections, 23 August 2020
27.02.2023 Article

Promoting international law and a rules-based order: Foreign Minister Baerbock in Geneva

International human rights protection as well as disarmament and arms control are coming under increasing pressure, not least due to the Russian war of aggression. For this very reason, every inch of progress made in the Human Rights Council and the Conference on Disarmament counts.

Foreign Minister Baerbock at the annual donor conference to overcome the humanitarian crisis in Yemen
01.12.2022 Article

2022 was a difficult year for the OSCE: How the organisation is responding to Russia’s obstructionist policy and why supporting the work of the OSCE is worthwhile

Before the meeting of the OSCE foreign ministers in Łódź, let us take a look at the work of the OSCE, Russia’s obstructionist policy and the value that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe offers to the world.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock OSCE general secretary Helga Schmid at the meeting of the OSCE foreign ministers in Łódź

Press releases

  1. 11.07.2025 Press release

    Joint statement of 11 July 2025 by the Foreign Ministers of Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the High Representative of the European Union on recent developments in Georgia

  2. 16.04.2025 Press release

    Human Rights Commissioner Amtsberg on the report concerning alleged transnational repression against Egyptian human rights defender and journalist Basma Mostafa in Germany

  3. 23.03.2025 Press release

    Federal Foreign Office on the detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu

  4. 19.03.2025 Press release

    Federal Foreign Office on the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu

  5. 27.02.2025 Press release

    Statement on the 10 year anniversary of the death of Boris Nemtsov

  6. 10.01.2025 Press release

    South Sudan: Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement

  7. 28.10.2024 Press release

    Joint Statement of EU ministers on the elections in Georgia

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