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Bundeswehr soldiers at Camp Castor in Gao, Mali
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Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has announced the withdrawal of his Bundeswehr from Mali.
In the case of the Greens, she encounters internal party criticism.
The deputy leader of the Greens in the Bundestag, Agnieszka Brugger, sees the withdrawal as a failure of European politics.
"Unfortunately, the European governments have once again failed to design a common foreign policy," she told the editorial network Germany.
»Instead, a number of our partners left the mission very quickly, single-handedly without a real common strategic direction.
Such mistakes must not be repeated.” A long-term commitment in the Sahel and a European consensus for this are necessary.
Germany is currently providing around 1,200 peacekeepers for the Minusma UN stabilization mission in Mali.
After a long dispute with the military rulers of the West African crisis state, the federal government agreed at a top-level meeting to withdraw the German soldiers from the UN mission by May 2024.
withdrawal of the allies
Before Germany, France, Great Britain and Denmark had already announced the withdrawal of their own troops.
The federal government has announced an orderly withdrawal.
At the same time, expectations were raised that the United Nations and the African Union should use the time to organize a successor.
Baerbock himself had emphasized the federal government's continued willingness to participate in such UN operations.
"UN peacekeeping missions remain a central component of our foreign, development and security policy," emphasized the Green politician on Wednesday in the debate on the budget of the Federal Foreign Office in the Bundestag, Germany's reliability.
"UN peacekeeping missions also serve our own security." Germany will reorganize its commitment in the crisis-ridden Sahel region together with international partners.
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