The Bundeswehr is involved in numerous missions abroad, for example the European Training Mission in Mali (EUTM)
ability to respond swiftly. Since being ad-
separate budget for UN peace missions. In
mitted to the UN in 1973, the Federal Re-
each case the figure is 7.1 percent of the to-
public of Germany has been a committed,
tal UN budget, making Germany the third
reliable, and valued member of the world
biggest contributor in 2015. Around 260
organisation. For this reason, in 2018 Ger-
German soldiers and police officers partici-
many intends to stand as a candidate for
pated in UN-led missions in 2014, among
one of the six non-permanent seats on the
others in Lebanon, Western Sahara, Mali,
UN Security Council for the 2019-2020
South Sudan, Sudan, and Liberia. The UN is
term. Germany contributes around 190
present in Germany too, in particular on
million dollars annually to the regular UN
the UN Campus in Bonn, home to 19 of the
budget, and some 640 million dollars to the
28 UN agencies in Germany as a whole,