The Earth is "ablaze" and humanity faces a number of big issues that can only be faced by countries working together, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in his speech before the UN on Wednesday,
"Anyone who loves their country, ladies and gentlemen, will be committed to cooperation, because only by working together we will all have a future," Maas said.
"Cooperation is not a betrayal of one's own country," he added, indirectly criticizing US President Donald Trump's statement earlier in the week that "the future does not belong to globalists," but "patriots."
Maas also called for the UN Security Council to start preventing conflicts instead of just responding to them.
"Far too often, crisis and conflicts are not discussed in the UN Security Council until shots are being fired," the German representative said.