Lavrov in Munich holds a meeting with the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
The Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov Century holds in the margins of the Munich security conference meeting with Vice-Chancellor, Minister of economy of Germany, Sigmar Gabriel.
Gabrielle jokingly complained Lavrov that got up today at 4 am yesterday and woke up at all in the hour of the night." Slept these days 3 hours to see you, " he joked, what made me laugh the Russian Minister.
The meeting is taking place behind closed doors.
Tentatively scheduled for Saturday speeches of politicians, speech and among them will act as the head of the Russian delegation, the Minister of foreign Affairs S. Lavrov.. it is Known that the Minister has committed to a series of bilateral meetings, for example with foreign Minister of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Stoltenberg.
Only the conference was attended by about 400 people, and among them declared Afghanistan's leader Ashraf Ghani of Ahmadzai, Finland Sauli Niinist?, Dalia Grybauskaite of Lithuania, Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Prime Ministers of Iraq and Lebanon Haider al-Abadi and Tammam Salam, head of the European Parliament Martin Schulz and the head of European diplomacy Federica Mogherini.
in the event there are parliamentary delegations from different countries and among them Russia and the United States, NATO and the OSCE, human rights organizations Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch and Greenpeace.
As they say local media, security conference from Friday to Sunday will provide about 4 thousand law enforcement officers. Expected congestion and transport problems, because at that time stated many protests against the conference and demonstrations. For example, on the first day of the weekend near the venue of the declared event with the participation of about 3 thousand people. The media said about another event with the participation of about 300 people in support of Ukraine.
Adjacent to the hotel Bayerischer Hof in the area and also the area of the press center with dawn surrounded by law enforcement agencies. The territory passed only by accreditation and special passes.
The Munich conference was founded in 1963 As "the meeting authorized the military departments" of countries-members of NATO. Now it is an international discussion forum, a gathering of politicians, diplomats, military, business, academic and community leaders from more than 40 countries in the world (members of NATO and the EU, and countries that play an important role on the world stage - Russia, China, Japan, India and others).
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