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Heiko Maas

Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection (2013-18). Minister of Foreign Affairs (since 2018).

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Remarks by Heiko Maas to the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly

by Heiko Maas

New York (USA) | 28 September 2018

Madam President, Ladies and gentlemen,
A veteran of UN diplomacy told me the other
day that every General Assembly has its own
crisis to discuss, its own major topic.
So what is tt]e big issue in 2018? Syria? North
Korea? The Middle East? Or the dramatic
global refugee situation from the (…)

Heiko Maas on Syria

by Heiko Maas

Berlin (Germany) | 14 April 2018

War has been raging in Syria for seven years. Time and again, we have seen that the Assad regime has committed war crimes and also used chemical weapons against civilians, as all available information indicates was recently the case in Douma, too.
Chemical weapons are banned internationally. (…)

Answer to OHCHR about the German Network Enforcement Act

by Heiko Maas

Berlin (Germany) | 9 August 2017

Answers to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression in regard to the Act to Improve En-forcement of the Law in Social Networks (Network Enforcement Act), provided by the Federal Government of Germany
Reference: Letter, dated 1 (…)