US President, Donald Trump was on the phone on Saturday for the first time with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The exchange of views lasted 45 minutes, as his press spokesman Sean Spicer said.
Trump and Merkel stressed in her first phone call to the “fundamental importance” of Nato, for the transatlantic relations and the preservation of peace and stability. They confirmed also the intention “to deepen the already excellent bilateral relations in the coming years,” it said in a joint press statement Saturday night.
topics, the situation in the Middle East, North Africa, and the relations to Russia and the conflict in Eastern Ukraine were in addition to the Nato.
it was spoken, Whether in the phone call about the issue of the lifting of the sanctions, said Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert. Germany and France had previously made it clear that they would ease the EU sanctions against Russia until the progress of the Minsk peace agreement. In the past few days had been speculation whether Trump could lift the U.S. sanctions against Russia.
Trump comes to Hamburg, Merkel is flying to Washington
The conversation with Merkel was particularly excited, because Trump in an Interview Merkel’s decision, hundreds of thousands of refugees, as a “catastrophic errors” had referred to – also with a view to the Terrorisiko. Merkel and Trump had been on the phone only once, shortly after his election to the U.S. President.
In the conversation, says Trump, his participation in the G-20 Meeting in Hamburg in July, said Seibert. Trump had expressed “his joy to welcome you soon in Washington.”
“We must take Donald Trump seriously – but not every word”
In the “picture”Interview, criticized Donald Trump, the refugee policy of Angela Merkel. He also noted the importance of Nato in question. Steffen Schwarzkopf about the words of the US President.
source: The world
Both are convinced that “the Nato to the challenges of the 21st century. Century to a common defence will require adequate investment in military capabilities and a fair contribution of all allies to collective security," it said.
Background Trumps demands for higher defense, the European allies are spending. They wanted to strengthen cooperation against terrorism and trying to stabilize the Middle East and North Africa.
desire for improved relations with Russia
Then Trump also spoke from his Desk in the Oval Office with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the conversation the two heads of state had agreed that bilateral relations at the “eye level” to strive, informed the Kremlin. In addition, the agreement between the United States and Russia in the fight against the jihadists militia Islamic state (IS) in Syria should be improved. Trump had recently said that he is facing a possible joint military operations with Russia against the IS open.
Also, wanted to revive economic contacts between their countries and the mutual relations stabilize. The U.S. sanctions against Russia were not mentioned in the statement.
The two leaders had also talked about the situation in the Ukraine. In addition, they had agreed to Meet to prepare, said the office of the President.
The phone conversation with Putin took place against the Background of the stated desire Trumps improved relations with the Kremlin chief and Russia. Also many of his own party colleagues to hold the new US President on this point, for the naive, especially in light of the recent assessment of the US intelligence services, according to the Moscow purposefully tried to influence the U.S. election.
to forward The information to the asked Trump, “that the people of the USA looks on with sympathy to Russia and its citizens”. Putin had declared that Russia feel the Same for the Americans.
“Iron” on the Japanese page
The phone calls with Merkel and Putin were two of the most important of a total of five conversations with foreign heads of state and government, which had called Trump on Saturday alone. He was on the phone already in the Morning with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and after his contact with Putin in a telephone call with the outgoing French President, François Hollande, to stand as the next.
Hollande warned his American colleagues in front of a protectionist policy that would have political as well as economic consequences. “In an unstable world full of uncertainty, a shift would be inside a cul-de-SAC,” said Hollande, as the President’s office in Paris announced. The fight against terrorism was a priority for France and the United States.
In his conversation with Shinzo Abe reiterated Trump to the White house, that the U.S. is “adamantly” maintained their commitment to ensure the security of Japan. Both sides had the desire to intensify the bilateral trade. As it was said, Abe, on 10. February, Trump at the White house.
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