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Munich Security Conference charts new role after uninviting Russia and Iran

Some officials worry defence forum could turn into a western echo chamber
Christoph Heusgen, chair of the Munich Security Conference, pictured, makes no excuses for excluding Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, saying: ‘No one can expect us to offer Lavrov, who is basically [Vladimir] Putin’s mouthpiece, a forum for his propaganda’

Twelve years ago, the US and Russia formally activated New Start, one of the last nuclear arms control treaties of the post-Cold War period. The venue they chose for this highly symbolic act was the Munich Security Conference, the Davos of defence.

That was no coincidence. The MSC had established itself by then as one of the world’s most influential forums for global diplomacy, a place where enemies have traditionally come together and — very occasionally — struck deals.

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