Munich security conference

Subject : International Relations

Section: Msc

Concept :

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Munich security conference

The Munich Security Conference is an annual conference on global security issues, was founded by a German official and publisher Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist at the peak of the Cold War.
It is the world’s leading forum for debating international security policy.
It is a venue for diplomatic initiatives to address the world’s most pressing security concerns.
The 2023 conference is being attended by the leaders of France and Germany, as well as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg.
Russian delegates who were regular attendees at Munich in the past have not been invited.
Background
Munich gained a grim reputation during the 1973 Olympics when the Israeli team was taken hostage by the Palestinian Black September group.
MSC is often remembered as the venue where the Russian President made his famous 2007 speech when he elaborated on the post-Cold War Russian security concerns and publicly opposed the expanding footprint of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and placing of nuclear-tipped missiles in Eastern Europe.

Objectives:

The MSC’s objective is to build trust and to contribute to the peaceful resolution of conflicts by sustaining a continuous, curated and informal dialogue within the international security community.
The primary objective of the MSC was to make sense of international affairs in an age when weapons of mass destruction had become part of the game.
The MSC conceives of its conferences as a type of “marketplace of ideas” where initiatives and solutions are developed and opinions are exchanged.
It provides a venue for official and non-official diplomatic initiatives and ideas to address the world’s most pressing security concerns.
In addition to its annual flagship conference, the MSC regularly convenes high-profile events on particular topics and regions and publishes the Munich Security Report.
Audience:
Senior decision-makers as well as thought-leaders from around the world, including heads of state, ministers, leading personalities of international and non-governmental organizations, high-ranking representatives of industry, media, academia, and civil society, come to engage in an intensive debate.