Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Monday for more cooperation between nation states and the transfer of power to multilateral organizations such as the UN, in a speech ahead of anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall. "This world will not be a peaceful one if we do not work for more global order and more multilateral cooperation," said Merkel, who was to great world leaders in Berlin later Monday.
The chancellor was speaking at the Falling Walls conference, a meeting on "Future Breakthroughs in Science and Technology".
Merkel gave the upcoming UN climate summit in Copenhagen as an example of where nation states must put their narrow interests behind the greater good.
"The most important thing, when attempting to overcome barriers, is: Are the nation states ready and willing to give competencies over to multilateral organizations, no matter what it costs?" Merkel said.
