Merkel calls Trump to congratulate on victory
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LONDON -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called President-elect Donald Trump to congratulate him on winning the US election and offer her country's cooperation.
Merkel's spokesman says the German leader spoke to Trump by telephone late Thursday.
Spokesman Georg Streiter told reporters in Berlin that Merkel stressed the common values of Germany and the United States.
Immediately following Trump's election victory, Merkel had offered the new U.S. administration "a close partnership" on the basis of "democracy, freedom, respect for the law and the dignity of human beings regardless of their origin, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation and political opinion."
Her comments were widely seen in Germany as a rebuke to Trump's rhetoric during the election campaign.
