Baerbock elected President of the UN General Assembly | EUROtoday

Former German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock would be the subsequent President of the UN General Assembly. In the election in New York, the 44-year-old Green politician obtained 167 votes within the United Nations’ largest committee.

Shortly earlier than, it turned sophisticated once more: Baerbock needed to face a secret vote on the request of a member state. This was confirmed by a UN spokeswoman for the German Press Agency in New York. The piquant: from diplomatic circles it was mentioned that the nation was Russia.

Baerbock competed within the election from 4:00 p.m. CET with out opposing candidates for the one-year prime place of the biggest UN committee with 193 member nations. The selection within the plenum earlier than 193 UN member nations was subsequently thought-about a matter of form-actually: Usually the final meeting seals private particulars with out opposing candidates by acclamation, i.e. in consensus and with out formal selection.

Now there was a coordination with the poll papers on which solely Baerbock’s identify stood. Your identify might be checked, nevertheless it was additionally doable to abstention or add one other identify. Baerbock’s selection, by which a easy majority is required, was nonetheless thought-about protected – and labored ultimately.

In the previous few weeks, Russia had made no secret of the truth that Baerbock considers it to be an unsuitable candidate and assumed her “blatant bias”. Baerbock, as Foreign Minister to Russia, had pushed a tricky course in the middle of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and thus stored focusing on Moscow.

Originally, the German prime diplomat Helga Schmid, which was additionally accepted by Russia, was meant for the workplace of President of the UN General Assembly. Baerbock was criticized for her late candidacy after the misplaced federal election.

The prime place is primarily given to protocol importance-it shouldn’t be confused with the position of UN General Secretary António Guterres. The official inauguration can be on September 9 shortly earlier than the UN General Assembly with state company from all around the world.

As President, Baerbock will lead the conferences of the final meeting and set processes and agenda objects. With these duties, the 44-year-old can at the least have a restricted affect on decision-making processes behind the scenes, for instance that of the election of the subsequent basic secretary within the coming yr. Baerbock’s direct line to exterior ministers worldwide-i.e. the bosses of the UN ambassadors in New York.

In distinction, the 15-member UN Security Council with the 5 Vetomaks is taken into account to be far more highly effective in comparison with the final meeting. It can concern resolutions binding beneath worldwide regulation. The political selections of the final meeting, alternatively, typically have a extra symbolic worth and are thought-about a worldwide temper.