Among others, Baerbock spoke with the Executive Coordinator of the United Nations Volunteer Program (UNV) and Administrator of the UN Campus Bonn, Toily Kurbanov, the Executive Secretary of the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Ibrahim Thiaw, and the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Framework Convention to Combat Climate Change (UNFCCC), Noura Hamladij.
Afterwards, she met Mayor Katja Dörner and Nathanael Liminski, Minister for Federal and European Affairs, International Affairs and Media of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, among others, at a lunch jointly hosted by the City of Bonn and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Katja Dörner: "The development of 'international Bonn' over the past almost three decades is closely linked to the United Nations and is a real success story. Today, Bonn is also an internationally renowned location for the United Nations and a center for international cooperation and sustainable development. In my conversation with the former Federal Foreign Minister and President-elect of the UN General Assembly, I discussed the current global challenges and the prospects for further strengthening Bonn as a UN location in Germany."
Bonn - German city of the United Nations
Since 1996, Bonn has successfully rebranded itself as the German city of the United Nations and a place of international dialog on future issues. A visible symbol of this development is the Bonn UN Campus. Almost all of Bonn's 27 UN organizations work there under one roof.
The United Nations has had offices in Bonn since 1951. The foundation stone for Bonn's development into the German city of the United Nations was laid in 1996 with the establishment of the Volunteer Program (UNV); the Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) followed shortly afterwards. The UN Women office was the most recent UN office to take up work in Bonn in spring 2025.
Today, the UN is represented in Bonn with around 1,200 employees and has become the center for sustainability within the United Nations, surrounded by a growing network of governmental, scientific, economic and civil society actors. In addition to federal authorities and German development cooperation institutions, Bonn is also home to numerous scientific institutions, companies and around 150 international and internationally active non-governmental organizations. Further information can be found at www.bonn.de/uno-stadt.