German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has expressed optimism about Germany\u2019s chances of securing a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, despite stiff competition from Austria and Portugal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn campaigning for a two-year term on the most powerful UN body, I have received a great deal of support for the fact that Germany is a strong and audible voice for peace and security,\u201d the country’s top diplomat said during a visit to the United Nations in New York on Friday.<\/p>\n
The new Security Council members will be elected by the General Assembly of the 193 member states on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Germany is standing in the \u201cWestern Europe and Others\u201d regional group for the 2027\u20132028 term for one of the two allocated seats.<\/p>\n
Berlin traditionally stands for one of the non-permanent seats every eight years and has already been represented on the Security Council six times, most recently in 2019-2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are now entering the home stretch of the election campaign. That is why we will once again mobilize all our resources,\u201d Wadephul asserted. \u201cWhen global crises are discussed, Germany wants to bring its influence to bear. That is appropriate for the world\u2019s third-largest economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Security Council comprises 15 of the 193 UN member states. Five nuclear powers and victorious nations of World War II are permanent members and hold veto power: the US, China, Russia, the United Kingdom and France.<\/p>\n
Other states take turns occupying the remaining 10 seats for two-year terms.<\/p>\n
Wadephul intends to campaign for the candidacy at numerous meetings ahead of the vote on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
He first met with representatives of small Pacific island states, which are particularly affected by climate change. \u201cThere are challenges of the utmost importance that we must not lose sight of, despite other currently particularly pressing conflicts and tensions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Wadephul plans to attend a session of the UN General Assembly on conflict mediation. The agenda will also include effective peacekeeping \u2013 particularly given that the United States, under President Donald Trump, has withdrawn from many UN bodies.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the focus will be on who will lead the UN General Assembly in future. Wadephul\u2019s predecessor, Annalena Baerbock, is the president of the 80th General Assembly. Her term ends at the start of the next General Assembly in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has expressed optimism about Germany\u2019s chances of securing a non-permanent seat on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27176,27177,8159,5,468,8008],"class_list":["post-26603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-angelholm-helsingborg-airport","tag-foreign-minister","tag-general-assembly","tag-germany","tag-johann-wadephul","tag-security-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}