Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel in Joint Press Conference - whitehouse.gov

These are turbulent times.  I think we would both agree.  And we have an opportunity talk about the whole spectrum of international issues.  Our bilateral relations are excellent.  We don't need to spend too much time on this. 

We used this opportunity here to talk about, as I said, the broad spectrum of international issues, for example, combatting terrorism, tackling the root causes of flight, and also the peace process, but also questions related to migration in general. 

We talked about Afghanistan, and Afghanistan, too, needs to be kept on a track which is promising for the Afghani people.  We are ready and willing to be militarily engaged, to continue to be militarily engaged.  We're grateful to the United States of America for the very great responsibility that you are willing to continue to shoulder.  And I think the message to the Taliban needs to be the international community will not leave Afghanistan in this current predicament. - Read More at the Joint Press Conference

Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel in Joint Press Conference