Juan Carlos Barrena
Berlin
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 7:05 p.m.
The former Secretary General of the Atlantic Alliance, the Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg, will be the new head of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), which is held every year in February in the Bavarian capital and informally brings together heads of state. and government, ministers and experts from around the world to address the planet’s crises and find solutions.
The independent institution announced this Tuesday the succession of the current head of the conference, the former German diplomat Cristoph Heusgen, by Stoltenberg, who will have to wait until the 2026 edition, to direct the event, used by attendees to hold confidential bilateral meetings. also between representatives of opposing countries, in the halls and rooms of the Bayerischer Hof hotel. A terrain that attendees consider neutral.
«I have dedicated my entire political life to preserving peace. It is a great honor for me to assume the presidency of the Munich Security Conference and to make a contribution to its mission ‘Peace through dialogue,’ Stolteberg said in a statement issued shortly after the official announcement, in which he stated that few platforms International agreements are as important as the MSC in preventing conflict and promoting international dialogue and cooperation.
«World fame»
Stoltenberg left his position as NATO secretary general at the beginning of this month after two terms and ten years in the position. He was also previously Prime Minister of Norway.
«With his worldwide fame and enormous experience, Jens Stoltenberg will lead the conference to a more important and global role. “No one is better qualified than him,” said in another note the president of the MSC foundation council and former head of the MSC, Wolfgang Ischinger, who thanked Christoph Heusgen for the work carried out in the last three years.
Since its founding in 1963, the Munich Security Conference has become one of the most relevant security policy forums in the world. United States presidents such as Joe Biden or George W. Bush, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, as well as a long list of statesmen, ministers, military experts and weapons manufacturers from the five continents have passed through Munich.
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