Gabi Weber

In addition, she served as vice-chairwoman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for the States of East Africa, which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations with Ethiopia, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda;[3] thus far, Weber has visited Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi.

On the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development, she was her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on arms exports as well as on Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia and East Africa.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Weber was part of the working group on foreign policy, led by Ursula von der Leyen, Gerd Müller and Sigmar Gabriel.

In February 2020, Weber announced that she would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.

[4] Weber has in the past voted in favor of German participation in United Nations peacekeeping missions as well as in United Nations-mandated European Union peacekeeping missions on the African continent, such as in Somalia – both Operation Atalanta and EUTM Somalia – (2014, 2015 and 2016), Darfur/Sudan (2013, 2014 and 2015), South Sudan (2013, 2014 and 2015), Mali (2014, 2015 and 2016), the Central African Republic (2014) and Liberia (2015).