Closely watched meeting takes place amid conflicts in Middle East and Ukraine and debates over Nato’s future
It’s the first day of the Munich Security Conference.
Key speakers today will include:
Kamala Harris, the US vice president
António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations
Nana Akufo-Addo, president of Ghana
Gustavo Petro Urrego, president of Colombia
David Cameron, the British foreign secretary
Israel Katz, the Israeli foreign minister
This year our main theme is lose-lose, because we believe we have entered a world where there are increasing attitudes of zero-sum thinking.
What we want to do with this conference is to provide a few examples of silver linings in what seems like a very complicated world, and how to include the global south in transatlantic and global security.
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