Green politician: Baerbock is looking forward to New York

Her change in the chair of the UN General Assembly is considered controversial, but Annalena Baerbock (Greens) is positive about the move to the USA. “I’m looking forward to New York,” quoted the “Bunte” on Wednesday the executive Foreign Minister.

The magazine also quoted the 44-year-old with statements about her daughters, who were at least partially contested by the Federal Foreign Office in the evening. Her daughters are “fire and flame,” quoted the colorful Baerbock. Above all, they are relieved that in America they are no longer perceived as daughters of a prominent mother, the article says. “There they don’t have the feeling that they are constantly being observed,” said Baerbock from the magazine.

In the evening it was said from the Federal Foreign Office: “We ask for your understanding that we do not express ourselves in principle. Which quote this referred to was initially unclear. In the late evening, the “colorful” was initially not to be achieved for a statement.

The now managing foreign minister is to be elected President of the UN General Assembly in June and will take up her one-year term in September. According to internal agreements, your choice is a matter of form at the United Nations.

The German top diplomat Helga Schmid was originally intended for the job, and the new election had caused criticism. The former chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, for example, described it as “insolence” to “replace the best and most internationally experienced German diplomat with an exhaust model”.

Baerbock led the Greens in the Bundestag election campaign as the first candidate for chancellor in 2021. In November, she and her husband Daniel Holefleisch announced the separation. Baerbock has two daughters in school age. From her personal environment it is said that the children would accompany Baerbock to New York and attend school there.