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Chancellor Angela Merkel / AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN / “
Chancellor Angela Merkel is
planning to hold her first meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington
on March 14, the White House and a German government source said Friday.
White House deputy spokeswoman Sarah Sanders confirmed the date of
the meeting and said a joint press conference was likely.
“Such a plan is in the works,” the German source said. Separately,
government spokesman Steffen Seibert said that “we are not denying” reports of
the planned meeting.
While former US president
Barack Obama had labelled Merkel an “outstanding partner,” there has been
little known contact between the German leader and Trump since he took office.
Following Trump’s shock election, Merkel reminded the billionaire
of democratic values in their first phone conversation.
Any “close cooperation” must be on the basis of the “values of
democracy, freedom, respect for the rule of law and human dignity, regardless
of origin, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or political
belief,” she said at the time.
Merkel has also criticised Trump’s decision seeking to ban
citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
In turn, Trump has been a strident critic of Merkel’s liberal
refugee policy that has led more than a million asylum seekers to come to
Germany since 2015.
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