A delegation of US senators on the Munich Conference on Security boycotted a gala dinner at the residence of Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer sign protest against his recent visit to Moscow – said on Sunday, “Der Spiegel”.
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“the visit of the Bavarian Prime Minister (…) with Russian President Vladimir Putin in early February led to a small scandal on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference,” – stressed the German weekly online edition.
awkward dinner
As learned “Spiegel” of persons present in the residence Seehofer, at a dinner given on Saturday evening showed only one of the US senators who have come to the Bavarian capital. I deliberately did not show up for a known tough stance towards Moscow Republican John McCain and several other senators.
How handed members of the US delegation, the visit Seehofer in Moscow “gave a completely wrong signal.” “A spontaneous boycott once again shows how strained relations between the US and Russia, as well as sensitive to the action taken in Europe to Moscow are (politicians) from overseas,” – says “Spiegel”. 
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Dinner at the residence Seehofer, who is head of the Christian Democrat party CSU forming part of the coalition government at the federal level, is issued in a stately mansion in the center of Munich and is considered the most important social event of the Munich Security Conference. For dinner, invited are the most important participants, including heads of state.
Bavarian conference
52. Munich Security Conference deliberated from Friday to Sunday in the Bavarian capital. As part of this meeting, more than 30 heads of state and government and 60 foreign ministers and defense talking about security, the future of NATO and the situation in Syria and Ukraine.
In the capital of Bavaria appeared, among others, President of Poland Andrzej Duda and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and US Secretary of State John Kerry and the head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov.
Wide echo reflected the words of Medvedev, who in Munich saddled the West responsible for a new cold war between the country and the West. In response to these words of Andrzej Duda he estimated that Russia is trying to undermine governance in Europe when talking about going back to the Cold War. The president wants to see in Central and Eastern Europe were fixed base hardware NATO, and the presence of rotational forces of the Alliance in practice meant the presence of a constant.
Author: KLO / kk / PAP
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