Angela Merkel Quotes

We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.

America can be a partner with China. We don't have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form. We can work with them, we can collaborate with them, if they're willing to be responsible.

The United States and India can work together.

I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs. I will work on deepening Haiti's links with its traditional partners from the North and the South, while exploring all the opportunities for economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation that may benefit my country.

Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

There is one condition for us to have healthy relations with the United States. It's called respect.

For a relationship between two countries to be sustainable, it must be mutually beneficial.

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience.

We are going to extend our frank hand to seek a relation of friendship - I repeat - of cooperation with the United States.

I am totally committed to the cooperation between the African Union and the United Nations.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

We should have a good working friendship with the United States.

Harmonious relations with a superpower like America should be a priority, but it does not mean that one should start begging from it.

In the '80s, we at least had the idea of diplomacy.

The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

My hope is that the president-elect [Donald Trump] coming in takes a similarly constructive approach, finding areas where we can cooperate with Russia, where our values and interests align. But that the president-elect also is willing to stand up to Russia where they are deviating from our values and international norms.

We always welcome when somebody says he or she is ready to work with Russia.

We are proceeding on the basis of common values. We have more to gain from partnership, from promoting our partnership in dealing with the big global challenges. I, therefore, believe that in the near future, not much is going to change in the relations between E.U., Greece and the United States of America. These are relations that were forged under very difficult conditions and rely on the common values of our people.

China is a great nation that offers the world a great culture, so many good things. I love the Chinese people and I hope there is the possibility of having good relations. We're in contact, we talk, we are moving forward but for me, to have as a friend a great country like China, which has so much culture and has so much opportunity to do good, would be a joy.

I have underscored my commitment to dialogue and cooperation with our neighboring Turkey, a country that plays an important role for the future of our region. But I still stress that the promotion of this important relations can only take place on the basis of mutual respect without threats of war and questioning of sovereign rights.