The world is steadfastly standing by the people of Afghanistan – this was the central message of the Afghanistan Conference in Bonn.more
Germany has been a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for one year. We look back and forward in an interview with Germany’s Ambassador to the UN, Peter Wittig.more
Germany has laid new foundations for its relations with Africa. In mid-2011 the Federal Government’s Strategy for Africa defined the most important points for partnership-based cooperation with the continent.more

Germany is strongly involved in the preservation of cultural monuments around the world. Now Germany has again been elected as a new member of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee until 2015.
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An interview with Ambassador Bernhard Graf von Waldersee, Director General for Latin American and Caribbean Affairs at the Federal Foreign Office.more
A new institution in Hamburg will give the north German metropolis an important role to play in European cooperation with Latin America and the Caribbean in the future: the new European Union-Latin America and Caribbean...more
Germany is putting its relations with Latin America and the Caribbean on a new footing. Future cooperation with the countries of the region will be based on a comprehensive foreign policy strategy.more
First Tunisia, then Egypt – more and more people in the Arab world are calling for political reforms. Germany supports the democratic transformation.more
A major series of events called “Germany and India 2011–2012” will be launched in the autumn of 2011 aimed at highlighting and strengthening Indo-German relations.more

Indonesia is the Chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2011. An interview with the German Ambassador to Indonesia, Norbert Baas, who is also the Ambassador to ASEAN.more

The German-Southeast Asian Centre of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG) started its work in Bangkok in 2010, putting academic cooperation between the two countries on a new footing.more
With the prospect of new raw materials and trade routes, the geopolitical significance of the North Pole is growing. International cooperation is becoming increasingly important in the region.more
Walter Lindner is the new Director-General for African Affairs at the Federal Foreign Office. The diplomat knows the continent well and mediated as German Ambassador in Kenya during the political crisis of 2007/2008.more
An interview with international law expert Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum about the freedom of the seas for research and sovereign rights in the Arctic.more
Marine research projects, climate protection strategies, a tsunami early warning system: Germany is supporting climate protection in marine regions around the globe.more
Retired Tübingen geology professor Abdul Rahman Ashraf will be Afghanistan’s ambassador in Berlin. His career so far.more

As of 1 January 2011 Germany will be a member of the United Nation’s most important body for two years.more

Federal Minister Dirk Niebel talks about the goals, core areas and new emphases of German development cooperation.more

An interview with Ambassador Peter Wittig on Germany’s role as a non-permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations and the objectives pursued by a reform of this important body.more
Germany is promoting the development of structures for peace and security in Africa at both bilateral and multilateral levels. This makes Germany an important partner on the African continent for the transfer of skills in...more