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Merkel warns Trump against ‘destroying’ UN
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Sept 30, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – German Chancellor Angela
Merkel on Sunday warned US President Donald Trump against “destroying” the
United Nations.
“I believe that destroying something without having developed something
new is extremely dangerous,” Merkel said at a regional election campaign
event in Bavaria.
The veteran leader — a close ally of Trump’s bugbear Barack Obama while
he was president — added that she believed multilateralism was the solution
to many of the world’s problems.
Trump failed to see the possibility for win-win solutions, she said,
instead seeing only one winner from any international negotiation.
In his second appearance before the UN’s annual gathering last week, Trump
told the General Assembly that he and his administration “reject the ideology
of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism”.
“Global governance” is a form of “coercion and domination” that
“responsible nations must defend against”, he charged.
Merkel’s opposing view to the US leader puts her in the same camp as UN
Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who warned before Trump took the podium
in New York Tuesday that “today, world order is increasingly chaotic”.
BSS/AFP/SSS/1958 hrs