Merkel Tells Pence No Nation Can Master World`s Challenges Alone

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Photographer: Christof Stache/AFP via Getty Images?No nation can resolve the world?s problems alone,? Merkel said in a speech to the Munich Security Conference. German Chancellor Angela Merkel sent a shot across the bows of the U.S. drive toward protectionism with a call for broad multilateral cooperation, saying that no nation can resolve the world?s crises on its own. Mike Pence and Angela Merkel in Munich on Feb. 18. Addressing an audience that included U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in Munich on Saturday, the chancellor argued for improving the international institutions that have underpinned the global order to safeguard them. ?We all feel a sense of unbelievable challenges, that something is really at stake -- whether we?ll all act together, or step back from our individual roles,? Merkel said.