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UN: Germany celebrates 50 years of membership
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https://www.dw.com/en/un-germany-celebrates-50-years-of-membership/a-66825582
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The victorious Western Allies of World War II, the United States, Britain, and France, which at that time still had a say over how Germany was governed, would have supported UN accession for the Federal Republic alone, but not the Soviet Union, which saw itself as the GDR’s guardian.
It is one of its largest contributors, has participated in numerous peace missions, and is an important UN host country: The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is in Hamburg and several UN organizations have their headquarters in Bonn.
On the basis of this strong commitment and on Germany’s economic and political weight, Berlin has been trying for many years to get a permanent seat with veto power on the UN Security Council, the organizations’s highest decision-making body.
The Germans argument, like that of the other aspirants to a permanent seat, is that the composition of the Council still reflects the geopolitical situation shortly after the Second World War, and not present-day realities.
The coalition agreement of the current German government has its own chapter on multilateralism, which states the following about the goals in the UN context: "We are committed to strengthening the United Nations (UN) as the most important institution of the international order politically, financially and in terms of personnel.
But even UN-oriented German foreign policy is now shifting a bit, said Hoff: “The recent G20 summit is a good example of just relying more on such formats to establish something like world governance, and less on the UN.”
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