Merkel Hopes Obama Will Launch Era of Global Cooperation

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that Barack Obama's inauguration as the first black American president is a "truly great hour for America" and hopes he will launch a new era of international cooperation.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she hoped that incoming US President Barack Obama will consult and cooperate with his international partners, and took a swipe at the unilateralism of George W. Bush by saying no country can solve the world's problems on its own.

"I hope our cooperation will be characterized by listening to one another and taking decisions on the basis that any one country can't solve the world's problems on its own, but that we can only do it together. And I will meet him in that spirit," Merkel told Germany's ARD television on Tuesday ahead of Obama's inauguration.

She said Obama's inauguration as the first black president of the US was "a truly great hour for America" that offered "a multitude of opportunities."

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,602289,00.html

[Gregorian]

1. Well, at least she won't have to worry about an awkward neck massage.

Edit- I just realized that the UN is going to be relevant again! Yes.