Merkel vows to safeguard multilateralism at WEF meeting

World Economic Forum (WEF) Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab delivers a speech during a plenary session at the 49th annual meeting of WEF in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2019. "I believe that multilateralism is indispensable for the prosperous development of the world," Merkel said here Wednesday. (Xinhua/Xu Jinquan)