The Federal President held a speech at the state banquet in Gaborone on the occasion of the state visit to Botswana on 21 November: "In the 52 years since attaining its independence, Botswana has succeeded in overcoming grinding poverty and setting up a stable parliamentary democracy. The country’s political leaders have played a key role here, as have, above all, the people in Botswana, who never tired of advocating peaceful co-existence with their neighbours."
Full speech: State banquet in Botswana …
Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier held a speech in the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg on the occasion of the state visit to the Republic of South Africa on 19 October: "Let us, South Africans and Germans, show that the world does not become more peaceful with 'everyone against everyone else', but only through increased cooperation".
Full speech: Visit to the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg …
The Federal President held a speech at the ceremony in the German Bundestag in Berlin on 9 November 2018: "Anyone who despises human rights and democracy today, who rekindles old nationalist hatred, certainly has no historical right to the colours black, red and gold. The revolution of 1918/19 was the dawn of democracy, of a political experiment whose outcome was uncertain."
Full speech: Ceremony in the German Bundestag on 9 November …
