2023-08-15 04:11:29
After two breakdowns with her government aircraft, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is continuing her trip to the Pacific region by scheduled flight this Tuesday for a week-long visit. According to information from her delegation, the Greens politician wanted to leave the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, with her entourage directly for the Australian metropolis of Sydney in the morning.
The Foreign Minister did not want to risk another attempt with the German Air Force Airbus A340-300 after another repair attempt. The flight times of the scheduled connection are such that the minister wanted to arrive in Sydney in the evening Australian time – eight hours before German time. Originally planned program points in the capital Canberra were partly canceled and partly postponed. After Australia, Baerbock also wants to visit New Zealand and the island nation of Fiji in the South Pacific.
As planned, Baerbock wanted to start her program on Wednesday with a speech at the renowned Lowy Institute. She is expected to comment on the geopolitical situation in the Pacific region amid China’s increasingly aggressive drive for power. The Minister will then meet with her Australian colleague Penny Wong.
As part of the meeting with Wong, Germany is also to return cultural assets from the colonial era to the indigenous Kaurna people in Australia. This part of the program was originally scheduled for Tuesday in the capital, Canberra. The cultural assets of the Grassi Museum in Leipzig – a wooden sword, a spear, a fishing net and a club – have sacred, cultural and identity-forming value for the Kaurna people. The delegation said it was not about looted property, but about objects that had been handed over to German missionaries by the Kaurna at the time.
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