60th Munich Security Conference

The 60th Munich Security Conference (MSC 2024) was the annual meeting of the Munich Security Conference from 16 to 18 February 2024.

The outlook was gloomy as international relations were generally in a downward lose-lose spiral.^[1]

Attendees

The conference was chaired by German diplomat Christoph Heusgen.^[2]^[3]

Participants included the following political representatives:^[4]

Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany
António Guterres, UN Secretary General
Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State
Kamala Harris, US Vice President
John Kerry, US Special Representative
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Minister of Ukraine
Vitali Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv
Isaac Herzog, President of Israel
Tzipi Livni, former Foreign Minister of Israel
Mohammad Shtayyeh, Prime Minister of the State of Palestine
Annalena Baerbock, Foreign Minister of Germany
Boris Pistorius, Minister of Defence of Germany
Robert Habeck, Vice Chancellor of Germany
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General
José Manuel Albares Bueno, Foreign Minister of Spain
Zin Mar Aung, Foreign Minister of the National Unity Government of Myanmar
Nechirvan Barzani, President of Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Ian Borg, Foreign Minister of Malta
David Cameron, UK Foreign Secretary
Helena Carreiras, Minister of Defence of Portugal
Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia
Javier González-Olaechea [es], Foreign Minister of Peru
Ng Eng Hen, Minister of Defence of Singapore
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Foreign Minister of India
Mélanie Joly, Foreign Minister of Canada
Hadja Lahbib, Foreign Minister of Belgium
Gabrielius Landsbergis, Foreign Minister of Lithuania
Diana Mondino, Foreign Minister of Argentina
Mohamed Uvais Mohamed Ali Sabry, Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka
Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani, Prime Minister of Iraq
Sameh Shoukry, Foreign Minister of Egypt
Hanena Ould Sidi [ar], Minister of Defence of Mauritania
Radosław Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland
Antonio Tajani, Foreign Minister of Italy
Bafel Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
Stergomena Tax, Minister of Defence of Tanzania
Elina Valtonen, Foreign Minister of Finland
Wang Yi, Chinese Communist Party Politburo foreign chief and Foreign Minister of China^[5]
Moosa Zameer, Foreign Minister of the Maldives
Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar
Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana
Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan
Bernardo Arévalo, President of Guatemala
Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister of Belgium
Nikolai Denkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Mariya Gabriel, Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria
Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark
Robert Golob, Prime Minister of Slovenia
Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Masud Bin Momen, Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh
Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of Estonia
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece
Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados
Kerrie Symmonds, Foreign Minister of Barbados
Stevo Pendarovski, President of North Macedonia
Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Evika Silina, Prime Minister of Latvia
Jonas Gahr Støre, Prime Minister of Norway
Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia
Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of Croatia
Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania
Kersti Kaljulaid, former President of Estonia^[6]
Alexander Stubb, President-elect of Finland
Gustavo Petro Urrego, President of Colombia
Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach of Ireland
Micheál Martin, Foreign Minister of Ireland
Salome Zourabichvili, President of Georgia
Yulia Navalnaya, Russian opposition leader and widow of Alexei Navalny

References

^ Lyse Doucet (19 February 2024), Munich security talks marked by global 'lose-lose' anxiety, BBC News
^ "Eurovision Services: Munich Security Conference 2024". www.eurovision.net. 2024-02-18. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
^ "Munich Security Conference". Women Political Leaders. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
^ "Main Program" (PDF). MSC. Retrieved 2024-02-16.
^ "China's Communist Party Names Wang Yi to Lead Foreign Policy". Bloomberg News. 2023-01-01. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 2023-01-01. China's ruling Communist Party has named Wang Yi to direct the nation's foreign policy after he was promoted to the 24-member Politburo following last year's twice-a-decade party congress.
^ "Kersti Kaljulaid: Europe's defense spending needs to be 3 percent of GDP". Eesti Rahvusringhääling. 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-02-22. Kaljulaid attended last weekend's Munich Security Conference and appeared on ETV politics show "Esimene stuudio" Wednesday evening.

External links

Media related to 60th Munich Security Conference at Wikimedia Commons
Munich Security Conference 2024 – official website

[BBC-1] Lyse Doucet (19 February 2024), Munich security talks marked by global 'lose-lose' anxiety, BBC News

[2] "Eurovision Services: Munich Security Conference 2024". www.eurovision.net. 2024-02-18. Retrieved 2024-01-20.

[3] "Munich Security Conference". Women Political Leaders. Retrieved 2024-01-20.

[4] "Main Program" (PDF). MSC. Retrieved 2024-02-16.

[5] "China's Communist Party Names Wang Yi to Lead Foreign Policy". Bloomberg News. 2023-01-01. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 2023-01-01. China's ruling Communist Party has named Wang Yi to direct the nation's foreign policy after he was promoted to the 24-member Politburo following last year's twice-a-decade party congress.

[6] "Kersti Kaljulaid: Europe's defense spending needs to be 3 percent of GDP". Eesti Rahvusringhääling. 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-02-22. Kaljulaid attended last weekend's Munich Security Conference and appeared on ETV politics show "Esimene stuudio" Wednesday evening.

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