German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the 1st time over the last 4 years will arrive at the Munich conference on security, which will be held February 6-8. About this stated the head of the forum Wolfgang Ischinger, reports citing the news Agency DPA.

" in the spotlight at the Symposium will be two large drop - in Ukraine and the middle East ", - stated in a published blog forum century.

maybe at the conference for the first time will come the leader of Iran, Hassan Rouhani.

in addition, it is assumed that the Munich conference will be attended by the head of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani of Ahmadzai, the head of Iraqi Kurdistan Massoud Barzani, the Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi, the head of the foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov..

The Munich conference has been held every year since 1962. Now it is an international discussion forum, a gathering of politicians, diplomats, military, business, academic and community leaders from dozens of countries.

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