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    Merkel, who was re-elected just in September, vowed her country's continuing support on a host of US initiatives, from the battle to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, to efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions. "Iran also knows where we draw a line" Merkel declared. "A nuclear bomb in the hands of an Iranian president who denies the Holocaust, threatens Israel and denies Israel the right to exist is not acceptable." Full Article at Channel News Asia
    Iran also knows where we draw a line
    Angela Merkel – Angela Merkel SOURCE: Channel News Asia 1 month ago
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Merkel urges climate action in historic US speech
  1. A nuclear bomb in the hands of an Iranian president who denies the Holocaust, threatens Israel and denies Israel the right to exist is not acceptable.
    SOURCE: Channel News Asia 1 month ago
  2. No doubt about it, in December, the world will look to us, to the Europeans and to the Americans. And it is true, there can be no agreement without China and India. But I'm convinced, once we in Europe and America show ourselves ready to adopt binding agreements, we will also be able to persuade China a...
    SOURCE: Channel News Asia 1 month ago
  3. walls in our minds, walls of short-sighted self-interest, walls between the present and the future.
    SOURCE: Channel News Asia 1 month ago
  4. The alliance between the United States and Germany has been an extraordinary pillar of the transatlantic relationship
    SOURCE: Channel News Asia 1 month ago
  5. I'm convinced, just as we found the strength in the 20th century to bring about the fall of a wall made of concrete and barbed wire, we shall now show that necessary strength to overcome the walls of the 21st century
    Angela Merkel – Angela Merkel SOURCE: Channel News Asia 1 month ago
  6. I know, we Germans know, how much we owe to you our American friends. And we shall never, I personally shall never, ever forget this
    Angela Merkel – Angela Merkel SOURCE: Channel News Asia 1 month ago
  7. It was this basis of values that ended the Cold War and it is this basis of values that enables us now to stand the test of our times.
    SOURCE: Channel News Asia 1 month ago

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