The U.S. administration’s action “in my view runs counter to the basic idea of international refugee aid and to international cooperation,” Merkel told reporters in Berlin on Monday, expanding on a statement by her spokesman a day earlier.
“The necessary, resolute fight against terrorism in no way justifies a blanket suspicion against people of a certain faith -- in this case Muslims -- or a certain origin,” Merkel said before a joint appearance with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at the chancellery.
Merkel expressed her concern about the temporary ban during a call with Trump on Saturday, according to her spokesman Steffen Seibert. She told Trump that international law requires states to “take in war refugees on humanitarian grounds,” Seibert said in a statement on Sunday.
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Merkel criticizes Trump blocking Muslim migrants as unwarranted
30 January 2017
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced U.S. President Donald Trump’s order setting new barriers to entry for people from seven mostly Islamic countries as a breach of humanitarian standards, saying the fight against terrorism doesn’t justify it.
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