Obama Meets Germany’s Merkel at Chancellery in Berlin

Chancellor Angela Merkel has received former U.S. President Barack Obama at her office in Berlin for a meeting characterized by German officials as a routine private encounter with a former international peer.

Angela Merkel accompanies Barack Obama as he leaves the Chancellery in Berlin on April 5, 2019.
Photographer: Monika Skolimowska/AP Photo

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By Associated Press

April 5, 2019 at 4:34 PM UTC

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Berlin (AP) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel has received former U.S. President Barack Obama at her office in Berlin for a meeting characterized by German officials as a routine private encounter with a former international peer.

Obama could be seen waving as he left the chancellery alongside Merkel Friday. Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said she has met repeatedly with ex-heads of state and government "with whom she worked together closely and well for a time."