From Friday to Sunday, 40 heads of state and government and almost 100 ministers discussed the global security architecture in Munich.
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Munich, Washington European states and the US pledged continued support to Ukraine over the weekend. At the Munich Security Conference, US Vice President Kamala Harris demanded that those responsible for Russia’s criminal war of aggression in Ukraine must be held accountable.
“Ukraine must win this war,” said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. And the message from US President Joe Biden, who is traveling to Poland on Tuesday, is: It is important to underline “transatlantic unity and its iron support for our allies”.
While Biden is giving a speech in front of the Warsaw Royal Castle on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to deliver a keynote address to his own people on the same day.
In Munich, however, it also became clear that not all countries approve of the military support for Ukraine – above all China. The People’s Republic’s top foreign politician, Wang Yi, announced a peace initiative for Ukraine, also to set a counterpoint to the USA.
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