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17.12.2019 Article

Breathing life into the Global Compact on Refugees

The first Global Refugee Forum of the United Nations is taking place in Geneva one year after the adoption of the Compact. The objective is to achieve an equitable sharing of the responsibility and burden in refugee issues at the international level.

Islahiye Camp for Syrian Refugees
02.12.2019 Article

Taking responsibility and sharing the burden – eight questions on the Global Refugee Forum

The international community adopted the Global Compact on Refugees one year ago. The Global Refugee Forum will take place in Geneva in mid‑December and will address the implementation of the Compact. What will be discussed there and what role will Germany play?

Children standing in front of tents of the UNHCR
25.07.2019 Article

Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: progress is being made

The GCM is the first ever internationally negotiated document designed to improve cooperation in the field of migration. Now the UN General Assembly has agreed on the modalities for exchange on the implementation of the Compact.

UN General Assembly in session in New York, 26 June 2019
22.07.2019 Article

Migration across the Mediterranean – why we now need a coalition of the willing

The challenges of displacement and migration are complex and require solutions at various levels. However, a rapid and pragmatic answer is urgently needed as regards the distribution of people rescued at sea. Germany is willing to do its part.

Refugees being rescued from drowning.
19.07.2019 Article

European cooperation: “Vaso di Fiori” returned to the Uffizi Gallery

Stolen by the National Socialists during the Second World War, Jan van Huysum’s painting “Vaso di Fiori” is now being returned to Italy. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas is bringing it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence today.

View of the Arno river

Press releases

  1. 16.12.2019 Press release

    Foreign Minister Maas prior to his departure for the Geneva Global Refugee Forum

  2. 18.11.2019 Press release

    Statement by Human Rights Commissioner Bärbel Kofler prior to her departure for a regional seminar in Nairobi, Kenya

  3. 20.08.2019 Press release

    Federal Foreign Office on yesterday’s telephone call between Foreign Minister Maas and his Italian counterpart Moavero

  4. 19.07.2019 Press release

    Foreign Minister Maas on the increase in emergency aid for refugees and migrants in Libya

  5. 19.06.2019 Press release

    Statement on World Refugee Day by Human Rights Commissioner Bärbel Kofler

  6. 19.06.2019 Press release

    Foreign Minister Maas on World Refugee Day

  7. 17.06.2019 Press release

    Foreign Minister Maas and High Commissioner Grandi open the conference “The Other 1 Percent – Refugee Students at Higher Education Institutions Worldwide”

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