US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on August 27, 2018. FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
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," Chancellor Merkel said at a regional
election campaign event in Bavaria.
The veteran leader
-- a close ally of President Trump's bugbear Barack Obama while he was
president -- added that she believed multilateralism was the solution to
many of the world's problems.
President Trump failed
to see the possibility for win-win solutions, she said, instead seeing
only one winner from any international negotiation.
Responsible nations
In
his second appearance before the UN's annual gathering last week,
President 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.
Chancellor
Merkel's opposing view to the US leader puts her in the same camp as UN
Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who warned before President Trump
took the podium in New York Tuesday that "today, world order is
increasingly chaotic".
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