The Secretary General of NATO, shortly after arriving in Munich [Photo: PAP / EPA]
In the capital of Bavaria on Friday began 51. Munich Security Conference (MSC). The session involved 20 heads of state and government and ministers of foreign affairs and defense from 70 countries.
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– The past year has been disastrous from the point of view of Security – said the chairman of the MSC, the German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger. He announced that the focal point of this year’s meeting will be the situation in Ukraine.
During last year’s meeting lasted protests on the Maidan, but no one expected that the conflict will become the most serious crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union – said Ischinger.
The first speakers will be the German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
In the Munich conference will be attended by US Vice President Joe Biden, his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko and the head of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The conference was also attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak foreign minister and Parliament Speaker.
In addition to the problems of three-day meeting of the Ukrainian program also provides a discussion of the threat posed by Islamist terrorism – especially the Islamic State.
On Saturday in the deliberations in Munich take German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who on Friday afternoon, together with French President Francois Hollande on Friday flew to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin.
Hollande Merkel and Putin came to the residence of approx. h . 19 local time (hr. 17 in Poland).
The leaders of France and Germany are to submit to the President of Russia’s new plan for resolving the conflict in Donbas, who on Thursday presented in Kiev Ukrainian President Petr Poroszence. Its details are not known. According to unofficial information, the plan develops the September agreement with Minsk.
Signed on September 19 last year in Minsk memorandum provides for, inter alia, ceasefire, verifying the truce by the OSCE, the withdrawal from the territory of Ukraine of illegal armed formations, military equipment, as well as fighters and mercenaries, the establishment of a demilitarized buffer zone, which is to be withdrawn heavy weapons, the release of all prisoners and illegal detention and monitoring of the Ukrainian border Russian OSCE.
This is the first visit to Merkel in Moscow since the outbreak of the war in the east of Ukraine. Hollande was already in the Russian capital in December 2014 year. He tried to find a solution to the conflict in the Donbas. His mediation failed.
Friday Nezavisimaya Gazeta said that if Putin, Hollande and Merkel are unable to agree, the last is a missed opportunity to rectify the Ukrainian crisis. The result will be a new Western sanctions against Russia, US arms supplies to Ukraine and out of combat operations outside the Donbass – said Moscow log.
The war in Ukraine the main theme of the Munich Conference … – Money.pl
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