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THE conference head, Wolfgang Ischinger on Monday said around 40 heads of state and government are expected to attend 2020 Munich Security Conference together with over 100 ministers.
The annual event, held for the 56th time, will be opened on Friday by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
It has become one of the most important meetings of experts on security policy in the world.
In terms of the topics under discussion at the three-day gathering, Ischinger told journalists in Berlin that “we have more crises, more dreadful crises, more terrible acts than one could imagine.’’
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to attend for the first time on Saturday.
The United States will have three representatives: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defence Secretary Mark Esper and Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette.
Also signed up from the U.S. are House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is among President Donald Trump’s biggest critics, and Mitt Romney.
The foreign ministers of China, Russia and Iran, Wang Yi, Sergei Lavrov and Mohammad Javad Zarif are also coming to Munich.
North Korean deputy foreign minister Kim Son Gyong, on the other hand, has canceled after initially indicating he would attend.
North Korea had been invited to the Munich Security Conference for the first time in 2020
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– Feb. 10, 2020 @ 18:16 GMT |
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