- This year's conference takes place respective weeks after Donald Trump's return to the White home and a week before the parliamentary elections in Germany
- — Russia will be there with our people, Ukraine is invited, too. I'm not certain precisely who's going to be there, but people at a advanced level," said Donald Trump
- — There's nothing on the table right now.The talks with the Russians in Munich are not expected,” said U.S. president Volodymyr Zelenski's communications advisor Dmytro Lytwyn.
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The topics to be discussed at the Munich conference will be armed conflicts in the mediate East and in Ukraine. The participants will include representatives of around 60 countries. They confirmed their presence, among others. Vice president of the United States J.D. Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. peculiar Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski, German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and North Atlantic Alliance Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
This year's event takes place at a crucial time for planet politics. It takes place respective weeks after Donald Trump's return to the White home and a week before the parliamentary elections in Germany. The conference president reported that the German parties AfD and BSW were not invited to attend the meetings.
Matthias Schrader/Associated Press/East News / East NewsChristoph Heusgen
– Both AfD and BSW left the German Bundestag erstwhile the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski spoke in it. TI don't want to see anything like this at the Conference. This is another reason why I decided not to invitation any AfD and BSW politicians this year,” said Christoph Heusgen.
Donald Trump's actions under the spotlight of conference participants
The President's final action will besides be crucial at the gathering of the leaders of the states. Donald Trump, who spoke to Russian president Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. In a communication published, he stressed that both “want to halt millions of victims of the war of Russia and Ukraine” so they agreed together "the immediate launch of peace talks".
The voice on Trump's conversation with Putin was taken by NATO chief Mark Rutte. “It seems like a good conversation. We all want peace in Ukraine. We'll see how this unfolds step by step. It is crucial that Ukraine is active in everything that concerns it," he said at a gathering of the defence ministers of the associate States of the alliance in Brussels.
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/East News / East NewsVladimir Putin and Donald Trump in 2019.
Volodymyr Zelenski commented on the issue. — Ukraine will not accept any peace agreements concluded between the US and Russia in its absence — he said. As he added, she would not have wanted "all things to go with Putin's plan", which would not have included Ukraine's voice at all in the peace talks.
The Munich Conference may be an appropriate chance for the president of Ukraine to talk to Donald Trump's fresh administration a strategy for announced negotiations and possible peace. The planned gathering of the head of state and deputy Donald Trump confirmed the White House.
Russia's presence in Munich?
On Thursday, Donald Trump reported that a gathering of representatives of Kiev, Moscow and Washington would be held at the Munich conference. — Russia will be there with our people, Ukraine is invited too. I am not certain who precisely will be there, but people at a advanced level from Russia, Ukraine and the United States," said the American leader.
Ben Gray/Associated Press/East News / East NewsDonald Trump
However, a conflicting message to president Trump was sent by the Ukrainian President's communications advisor, Dmytro Lytvyn. — Ukraine does not foresee talks with the Russian side On Friday in Munich, what president Donald Trump announced on Thursday, he said.
— There's nothing on the table right now. Talks with Russians in Munich are not expected “He added.
What is the Munich safety Conference?
The conference is attended by heads of state, government, representatives of global organisations, ministers, members of parliament, high-ranking representatives of armed forces, science, civilian society, business and media. MSC had its first edition in 1963. From the beginning, the event is held at the Munich Bayerischer Hof Hotel.
The Munich safety Conference is the largest specified event in the world. During its course, participants exchange views and discuss current global problems. However, no resolutions shall be adopted and no votes shall be taken. The conference is presently chaired by Christoph Heusgen.
Head of the Pentagon in Poland
On Friday, in Warsaw, the Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth will meet with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish and president Andrzej Duda.
SIMON MAINA/AFP/East News / East NewsPete Hegseth
Pete Hegseth landed at Warsaw Okęcie Airport shortly before 8:00 on Thursday. The President's office informed that the gathering of Andrzej Duda with a typical of the United States would take place at 12:15 at the Presidential Palace. A gathering was planned with the head of the MON.
About the arrival of an American authoritative informed US embassy in Poland on social media.
"US Secretary of defence Pete Hegseth just landed in Poland – at the airport he was welcomed by Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Daniel Lawton. The Secretary of defence will meet with Polish leaders to discuss a strong bilateral defence partnership, efforts to strengthen deterrence on the east flank of NATO and the function of Poland as a model ally in defence investments and division of responsibilities in NATO. He will besides visit American soldiers stationed in Poland“to see for themselves how much they contribute to safety in the region”, reported on platform X.
