In 2013 and 2014, Kaag led the special UN mission that successfully destroyed Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal.
Sigrid Kaag is a seasoned diplomat. In that capacity she lived and worked in the Lebanese capital Beirut, the Austrian capital Vienna and the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
In 2017, she became Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation for the left-liberal D66. In 2018, the position of Foreign Affairs was added. In 2021, as political leader of D66, she achieved great electoral success: with 24 seats in the House of Representatives, D66 became the second largest political formation in the Netherlands, after Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s right-wing liberal VVD.
After a difficult formation, Sigrid became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the new Rutte government in 2022. But as a woman she came under increasing criticism, especially from the agricultural sector. Many farmers regarded her as their opponent in their fight against stricter nitrogen regulations. That protest went off the rails and Kaag even received death threats. Her marriage to a Palestinian was also resented.
Last summer she announced that she would leave politics. Today this is made concrete.
2023-12-26 18:54:00
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