One day before the start of the security conference, US Vice President Kamala Harris landed in Munich. Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder welcomed the deputy of US President Joe Biden on the airport runway on Thursday.
Around 40 heads of state and government, around 100 ministers and several heads of international organizations are expected to attend the world’s most important expert conference on security policy in Munich from Friday to Sunday. In addition to Harris, these include Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and China’s top foreign politician Wang Yi. It is the first security conference since Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine began a year ago.