German Chancellor Frederick Mirz said Friday after meeting the president Donald Trump In the White House, he encountered an American administration and returned to confidence that Washington's commitment to NATO.
Mirz told his Oval Office meeting with Trump, but also clearly that the two leaders expressed different views about Ukraine.
“In a meeting held at the Oval Office yesterday, I expressed a particular position on the topic of Ukraine than Trump, and not only had any objection, but we re -discussed it in detail during lunch,” Mirz said in Berlin.
The White House meeting was first marked on Thursday when both were sitting personally. Mirz, who became Chancellor in May, avoided a collision at the Oval Office, which also gave birth to other world leaders, including Ukraine's Wolodmeer Zelannsky and South Africa's serial Ramphosa.
Both leaders opened with pleasantness. Mirz presented Trump to the president's grandfather, Frederick Trump's gold -made birth certificate, which emigrated from the German city of Cles. Trump asked Murz to “deal with a very good man.”
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“The US administration is open for debate, hears, and is willing to accept different opinions,” he said.
He added that the dialogue should go in both ways: “Let's stop talking about Donald Trump with a raised finger and a nose. You have to talk to him, not about it.”
He also met Senators at Capital Hill, and urged him to recognize the scale of the Russian Russian Rerender.
“Please take a look at how far Russia's weapons are going, what are they doing there right now,” he said. You have no clear idea what is happening. ” “In short, you can talk to them, but you should not let yourself scare yourself. I don't have it bent.”
Mirz, who speaks English fluently, emphasized the need for translatable confidence and said he reminded Trump that the allies make a difference.
“Whether we like it or not, we will be dependent on the United States for a long time,” he said. “But you also need partners in the world, and European, especially Germans, are the most appropriate partners.
“This is the difference between the dictatorial system and the democracies: the authoritarian system is under the system. He is a partner of democracies – and we want to be a partner with Europe and the United States.”
He reiterated that the United States is committed to NATO, especially when Germany and others promote their defense spending. Trump has in the past suggested that if member states do not meet the goals of defense spending, the United States can abandon its commitments to the coalition.
Mirza said, “I have no doubt that the US government is committed to NATO, especially now that we all have said that we are doing more. We are making sure we can defend ourselves in Europe, and I am sure that this was not unreasonable.”
“We have been riding free for years of US security guarantees, and now we are changing it.”
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