Overview
- Baerbock, who began her two-day India visit Tuesday at Rajghat, met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to discuss UN80 reform, the Sustainable Development Goals, artificial intelligence policy and the West Asia conflict.
- At a press conference, she said only the UN gives every nation a seat at the table and criticized President Donald Trump’s fee-based Board of Peace as incompatible with a just peace.
- She warned that the Strait of Hormuz closure is pushing up energy and fertilizer prices and pointed to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and mass displacement in Lebanon.
- Her Delhi program included talks with the Ministry of Electronics and IT on AI governance and a session with the UN country team in India led by Resident Coordinator Stefan Priesner.
- She travels next to China on April 29–30 in an Asia swing that elevates India’s partnership on UN reform and ongoing Security Council expansion debates.