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See you next year

Looking forward to the 51st Munich Security Conference!

See you again next year

Looking forward to the 51st Munich Security Conference!

Moshe Ya'alon

Moshe Ya’alon (Minister of Defence, State of Israel)

Moshe Ya'alon

Moshe Ya’alon (Minister of Defence, State of Israel)

Moshe Ya'alon

Moshe Ya’alon (Minister of Defence, State of Israel)

Moshe Ya'alon

Moshe Ya’alon (Minister of Defence, State of Israel)

Wolfgang Ischinger

Wolfgang Ischinger

Wolfgang Ischinger and Mohamad Javad Zarif

Mohamad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran)

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Ahmet Davutoğlu (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey)

Iran

Audience

Carl Bildt

Carl Bildt (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Sweden)

Carl Bildt and Mohamad Javad Zarif

Carl Bildt (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Sweden) and Mohamad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran).

Christopher Murphy

Christopher Murphy (U.S. Senator)

Diplomacy in a Digital Age

Diplomacy in a Digital Age

Mohamad Javad Zarif

Mohamad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran).

Mohamad Javad Zarif

Mohamad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran).

Mohamad Javad Zarif

Mohamad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran)

Yukiya Amano and Mohamad Javad Zarif

Yukiya Amano (Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency) and Mohamad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran)

Moshe Ya'alon

Moshe Ya’alon (Minister of Defence, State of Israel).

Iran

Yukiya Amano (Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency), Mohamad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran), Carl Bildt (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Sweden), Christopher Murphy (U.S. Senator) and Wolfgang Ischinger.

Yukiya Amano and Mohamad Javad Zarif

Yukiya Amano (Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency) and Mohamad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran).

John McCain

John McCain (U.S. Senator, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs).

Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Ian Bremmer

Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani (Secretary General, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf), Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies) and Ian Bremmer (President and Founder, Eurasia Group).

John McCain

John McCain (U.S. Senator, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs).

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Ahmet Davutoğlu (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey).

Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani

Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani (Secretary General, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf).

What Season is next for the Middle East?

Ahmet Davutoğlu, Khalid Mohamed A. Al-Attiyah, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, John McCain, Ian Bremmer.

Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies).

Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and John McCain

Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies) and John McCain (U.S. Senator, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs).

Khalid Mohamed A. Al-Attiyah

Khalid Mohamed A. Al-Attiyah (Minister of Foreign Affairs, State of Qatar).

Ahmet Davutoğlu, Khalid Mohamed A. Al-Attiyah, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, John McCain and Ian Bremmer

Ahmet Davutoğlu (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey), Khalid Mohamed A. Al-Attiyah (Minister of Foreign Affairs, State of Qatar), Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani (Secretary General, Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf), Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies), John McCain (U.S. Senator, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs) and Ian Bremmer (President and Founder, Eurasia Group).

Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies)

Hashim Thaçi

Hashim Thaçi (Prime Minister, Pristina).

The Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue

Ivica Dačić (Prime Minister, Belgrade), Catherine Ashton (High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, EU) and Hashim Thaçi (Prime Minister, Pristina).

Ivica Dačić

Ivica Dačić (Prime Minister, Belgrade)

Catherine Ashton

Catherine Ashton (High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, EU).

Catherine Ashton, Ivica Dačić and Hashim Thaçi

Ivica Dačić (Prime Minister, Belgrade), Hashim Thaçi (Prime Minister, Pristina) and Catherine Ashton (High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, EU).

Ivica Dačić, Hashim Thaçi and Catherine Ashton

Ivica Dačić (Prime Minister, Belgrade), Hashim Thaçi (Prime Minister, Pristina), Catherine Ashton (Vice President of the European Commission; High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, EU).

Ivica Dačić, Catherine Ashton, Hashim Thaçi and Wolfgang Ischinger

Ivica Dačić (Prime Minister, Belgrade), Catherine Ashton (Vice President of the European Commission; High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, EU), Hashim Thaçi (Prime Minister, Pristina) and Wolfgang Ischinger.

Horst Seehofer, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Helmut Schmidt, Henry Kissinger, Wolfgang Ischinger

Horst Seehofer (Minister-President, Free State of Bavaria), Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (Former President of the French Republic), Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit), Henry Kissinger (Former United States Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.), Wolfgang Ischinger.

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (Former President of the French Republic).

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Helmut Schmidt and Wolfgang Ischinger

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (Former President of the French Republic), Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit) and Wolfgang Ischinger.

Helmut Schmidt and Henry Kissinger

Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit) and Henry Kissinger (Former United States Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.).

Ewald-von-Kleist-Award

Ewald-von-Kleist-Award

Horst Seehofer, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Helmut Schmidt, Henry Kissinger

Horst Seehofer (Minister-President, Free State of Bavaria), Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (Former President of the French Republic), Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit), Henry Kissinger (Former United States Secretary of State; Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.), Wolfgang Ischinger

Energy and Climate Security

Christiana Figueres (Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), Sheldon Whitehouse, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism for the Senate Committee on Judiciary,USA), Anshu Jain (Co-Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank AG), [[:en:Günther Oettinger|Günther Oettinger]] (Commissioner for Energy, EU), Daniel Yergin (Executive Vice President and Chairman, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates).

The Post-Conflict Conundrum

Almut Wieland-Karimi (Director, Center for International Peace Operations), Philip M. Breedlove (General, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO Allied Command Operations), Mohamed Emhemed Abdul Aziz (Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation), Philip Hammond (Secretary of State for Defence, UK) and Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah (Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania; Member of the Advisory Council, Transparency International).

Vitali Klychko

Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms).

Leonid Kozhara and Vitali Klychko

Leonid Kozhara (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine) and Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms).

Vitali Klychko

Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms)

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski (Former United States National Security Advisor; Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies)

Irakli Garibashvili

Irakli Garibashvili (Prime Minister, Georgia).

A Focus on Central and Eastern Europe

Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms), Leonid Slutsky (Member of the State Duma, Chairman of the Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and Compatriot Relationships, Russian Federation) and Irakli Garibashvili (Prime Minister, Georgia).

Wolfgang Ischinger and Vitali Klychko

Wolfgang Ischinger and Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms).

A Focus on Central and Eastern Europe

Zbigniew Brzezinski (Former United States National Security Advisor; Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies).

A Focus on Central and Eastern Europe

Zbigniew Brzezinski (Former United States National Security Advisor; Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies), Leonid Kozhara (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine), Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms).

A Focus on Central and Eastern Europe

Zbigniew Brzezinski (Former United States National Security Advisor; Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies), Leonid Kozhara (Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ukraine), Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms), Leonid Slutsky (Member of the State Duma, Chairman of the Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and Compatriot Relationships, Russian Federation), Irakli Garibashvili (Prime Minister, Georgia), Traian Băsescu (President, Romania) and Štefan Füle (Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, EU).

Traian Băsescu

Traian Băsescu (President, Romania)

Bilateral Meeting

John Kerry (Secretary of States, USA) meets Ukrainian Opposition (Petro Poroshenko, Vitali Klychko and Arseniy Yatsenyuk).

Bilateral Meeting

Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform), Laurent Fabius (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, French Republic) and Arseniy Yatsenyuk (Member of Parliament, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine)

Vitali Klychko and Laurent Fabius

Meeting between the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ukrainian Opposition.

Vitali Klychko

Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms).

MSC at Fifty

Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit), Valéry Giscard D'Estaing (Former President of the French Republic), Henry Kissinger (Former U.S. Secretary of State), Egon Bahr (Former Federal Minister for Special Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany), Radosław Sikorski (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland), David Miliband (Former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the UK; President and Chief Executive Officer, International Rescue Committee), Josef Joffe (Editor, Die Zeit).

Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit, Hamburg).

Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit, Hamburg).

Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Henry Kissinger and Egon Bahr

Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Henry Kissinger and Egon Bahr

Egon Bahr and William S. Cohen

Egon Bahr (Former Federal Minister for Special Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany) and William S. Cohen (Former United States Secretary of Defense).

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger (Former Secretary of State, United States of America).

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (Former President of the French Republic)

MSC at Fifty

Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Henry Kissinger, Egon Bahr, Radosław Sikorski and David Miliband.

Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Henry Kissinger and Egon Bahr

Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (Former President, French Republic), Henry Kissinger (Former Secretary of State, USA) and Egon Bahr (Former Federal Minister for Special Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany).

Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Henry Kissinger and Egon Bahr

Helmut Schmidt, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Henry Kissinger and Egon Bahr.

Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit, Hamburg).

Thomas de Maizière and Moshe Ya'alon

Thomas de Maizière (Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany) and Moshe Ya’alon (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, State of Israel).

Moshe Ya'alon and Thomas de Maizière

Moshe Ya’alon (Minister of Defence, State of Israel) and Thomas de Maizière (Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany).

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Vitali Klychko

Bilateral Meeting between Frank-Walter Steinmeier (German Foreign Minister) and Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms).

Vitali Klychko and Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Vitali Klychko (Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Emily Haber and Thomas de Maizière

Emily Haber (State Secretary, Ministry of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany) and Thomas de Maizière (Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany).

Helmut Schmidt, Wolfgang Ischinger and Egon Bahr

Helmut Schmidt (Former Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; Editor, Die Zeit), Wolfgang Ischinger and Egon Bahr (Former Federal Minister for Special Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany).

Laurent Fabius and Najib Mikati

Laurent Fabius (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs) and Najib Mikati (Prime Minister, Lebanese Republic)

Fumio Kishida

Fumio Kishida (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan)

Ivo Josipović, Lindsey Graham, Fu Ying, Shivshankar Menon and James G. Stavridis

Ivo Josipović (President, Republic of Croatia), Lindsey Graham (Senator, Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, USA), Fu Ying (Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress, People’s Republic of China), Shivshankar Menon (National Security Advisor, Republic of India) and James G. Stavridis (Admiral (ret.); former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University).

Chuck Hagel

Chuck Hagel (Secretary of Defense, USA).

John Kerry, Chuck Hagel and Wolfgang Ischinger

John Kerry (Secretary of State, USA), Chuck Hagel (Secretary of Defense, USA) and Wolfgang Ischinger.

John Kerry

John Kerry (Secretary of State, USA).

Joe Lieberman and John McCain

Joseph I. Lieberman (Former United States Senator) and John McCain (Senator, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services and Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, USA)

John Kerry, Chuck Hagel and Wolfgang Ischinger

John Kerry (Secretary of State, U.S.), Chuck Hagel (Secretary of Defense, U.S.) and Wolfgang Ischinger.

John Kerry and Chuck Hagel

John Kerry (Secretary of State, USA) and Chuck Hagel (Secretary of Defense, USA).

Sergey Lavrov and Tzipi Livni

Sergey V. Lavrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation) and Tzipi Livni (Minister of Justice, State of Israel).

Henry Kissinger and Ursula von der Leyen

Henry Kissinger (Former U.S. Secretary of State) and Ursula von der Leyen (Federal Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany).

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

Sergey Lavrov

Sergey V. Lavrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation).

Sergey Lavrov and Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Sergey V. Lavrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Sergey Lavrov and Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Sergey V. Lavrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Sergey Lavrov

Sergey V. Lavrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation).

Laurent Fabius

Laurent Fabius (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, French Republic)

Europe

Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Laurent Fabius (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, French Republic), Sergey Lavrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Europe

Sergey Lavrov (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation), Wolfgang Ischinger, Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and Laurent Fabius (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, French Republic).

Europe

Laurent Fabius (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, French Republic), Wolfgang Ischinger, Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

Saeb Erekat,Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Tzipi Livni

Saeb Erekat (Head of the Palestinian Negotiation Steering and Monitoring Committee, Palestinian National Authority), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (Former President of the French Republic) and Tzipi Livni (Minister of Justice, State of Israel).

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-Moon (Secretary General, United Nations).

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany)

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-Moon (Secretary General, United Nations).

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-Moon (Secretary General, United Nations).

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Ban Ki-moon and Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Ban Ki-Moon (Secretary General, United Nations) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-Moon (Secretary General, United Nations).

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-Moon (Secretary General, United Nations).

Global Power and Regional Stability

Ban Ki-moon (Secretary General, United Nations), Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany), Herman Van Rompuy (President, European Council)

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Michael Schaefer and Fu Ying

Michael Schaefer (Chairman of the Board, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt) and Fu Ying (Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, People's Republic of China).

Thomas de Maizière and Laurent Fabius

Thomas de Maizière (Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany) and Laurent Fabius (Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, French Republic).

Gerald Klug and Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Gerald Klug (Federal Minister of Defence and Sports, Republic of Austria) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Gerald Klug and Ban Ki-moon

Gerald Klug (Federal Minister of Defence and Sports, Republic of Austria) and Ban Ki-Moon (Secretary General, United Nations).

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-Moon (Secretary General, United Nations).

Ban Ki-moon and Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Ban Ki-Moon (Secretary General, United Nations) and Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Yukiya Amano

Yukiya Amano, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency.

Yukiya Amano

Yukiya Amano, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency.

Ursula von der Leyen

Ursula von der Leyen, Federal Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany.

Vitali Klychko

Vitali Klychko, Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms.

Vitali Klychko

Vitali Klychko, Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms.

Vitali Klychko

Vitali Klychko, Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms.

Vitali Klychko

Vitali Klychko, Party Chairman, Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reforms.

Wolfgang Ischinger and Egon Bahr

Wolfgang Ischinger and Egon Bahr (Former Federal Minister for Special Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany).

Joe Lieberman and Wolfgang Ischinger

Joseph I. Lieberman, Former United States Senator, and Wolfgang Ischinger.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on Syria.

Night Owl Session

The Syrian Catastrophe: Emma Bonino, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Italian Republic, Najib Mikati, Prime Minister, Lebanese Republic, Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on Syria, António Guterres, High Commissioner for Refugees, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, The New America Foundation.

The panel on "The Middle East Peace Process"

From left: Dr. [[:en:Martin S. Indyk|Martin S. Indyk]] (Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, United States of America; Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution), Dr. Saeb Erekat (Head of the Palestinian Negotiation Steering and Monitoring Committee, Palestinian National Authority), Tzipi Livni (Minister of Justice, State of Israel), Tony Blair (former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Quartet Representative on the Middle East), Moderator: Philip Stephens (Associate Editor, Financial Times).

Martin S. Indyk and Saeb Erekat

Dr. Martin S. Indyk (Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, United States of America; Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution) and Dr. Saeb Erekat (Head of the Palestinian Negotiation Steering and Monitoring Committee, Palestinian National Authority).

Tony Blair and Henry Kissinger

Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister of the UK, and Henry Kissinger, Former U.S. Secretary of State.

Saeb Erekat and Tzivi Livni

Saeb Erekat (Head of the Palestinian Negotiation Steering and Monitoring Committee, Palestinian National Authority) and Tzivi Livni (Minister of Justice, State of Israel).

Tony Blair

Tony Blair (Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Quartet Representative on the Middle East).

Thomas de Maizière and Michael Rogers

From left: Thomas de Maizière (Federal Minister of the Interior, Federal Republic of Germany), and Michael Rogers (Representative, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, United States of America).

Ursula von der Leyen

Ursula von der Leyen (Federal Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany).

View of the Conference Hall

The audience in the packed conference hall at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof during the first hours of the conference.

Joachim Gauck speaks at the 50th MSC

Joachim Gauck, the German President, speaks at the 50th MSC.

Joachim Gauck and Sebastian Kurz

Joachim Gauck (Federal President, Federal Republic of Germany) and Sebastian Kurz (Federal Minister for European and International Affairs, Republic of Austria).

Joachim Gauck

Joachim Gauck (Federal President, Federal Republic of Germany), during the opening session of the 50th MSC,

Louise Mushikiwabo and Wolfgang Ischinger

Louise Mushikiwabo (Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Republic of Rwanda), and Wolfgang Ischinger.

Wolfgang Ischinger, Saeb Erekat

From left: Wolfgang Ischinger (Chairman of the Munich Security Conference) and Saeb Erekat (Head of the Palestinian Negotiation Steering and Monitoring Committee, Palestinian National Authority).

Ursula von der Leyen

Ursula von der Leyen (Federal Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany) listening to the first speeches at the 50th MSC.

Mohamad Javad Zarif

Mohamad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran) arrives at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof.

Ursula von der Leyen and Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Ursula von der Leyen (Minister of Defence, Federal Republic of Germany), and (Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President, Republic of Estonia).

Wolfgang Ischinger

Wolfgang Ischinger and the publication "Towards Mutual Security: 50 Years of Munich Security Conference".

German President Joachim Gauck

German President Joachim Gauck during his opening speech at the 50th Munich Security Conference.

Joachim Gauck arriving

Joachim Gauck, Federal President, Federal Republic of Germany, arriving at MSC.

Taking precautions

Security checks at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof.

The conference hall

The conference hall at Hotel Bayerischer Hof before the start of the 50th MSC.

Final Countdown

Getting ready for the 50th MSC

Debating the future of the Middle East

From right: Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor Al-Thani (Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, State of Qatar), Prof. Dr. Ahmet Davutoğlu (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey), Prince Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Chairman, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies), Nemir Kirdar (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Investcorp), and Senator John McCain.

Debating Iran's nuclear program

From left: Ruprecht Polenz (Member of the German Bundestag, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Berlin), Prof. Dr. Vali Nasr (Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.), Ali Akbar Salehi (Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran), Moderator: Georg Mascolo (Editor-in-Chief, Der Spiegel, Hamburg).

Iranian Foreign Minister Salehi

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (right), and Vali Nasr, Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, during a panel discussion on Iran.

The US Congressional Delegation

Senator John McCain, leading the US Congressional Delegation, answering questions by journalists. In 2013, ten US Senators participated in the MSC.

"The Rising Powers and Global Governance"

From right: Moderator Prof. Charles A. Kupchan (Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations of the United States), Song Tao (Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China), Shivshankar Menon (National Security Advisor, Republic of India), Dr. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota (Minister of External Relations, Federative Republic of Brazil), Dr. Ng Eng Hen (Minister for Defence, Republic of Singapore, Singapore).

US Vice President Biden's speech

US Vice President Joe Biden addressing the participants of the conference.

A look into the conference hall

A view of the conference hall on Saturday, February 2nd, 2013.

US Vice President Joe Biden

US Vice President Joseph Biden during his speech at the MSC 2013.

NATO Secretary General Rasmussen

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen addresses the participants of the 2013 MSC.

Joe Biden and Javier Solana

US Vice President Joseph Biden (right) greets Javier Solana between sessions.

At the conference margins

German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière (left) greets his counterpart from israel, Ehud Barak. In front, UN Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi shakes hands with Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.

Moaz Al-Khatib

Sheikh Moaz Al-Khatib, the President of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces addressing the conference participants.

The conference hall

Javier Solana, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and Robert Zoellick listening to the debate on the geopolitics of energy.

Spanish Foreign Minister García-Margallo

José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, the Spanish foreign Minister, addressing the future of the European Union.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group and former German Foreign Minister, speaks about the Eurocrisis and the future of the EU.

German Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble

With Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group, to his right, and former World Bank President Robert Zoellick to his left, Wolfgang Schäuble addresses the MSC 2013.

Debating the geopolitics of energy

From right: Moderator Dr. Daniel Yergin (Vice Chairman, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates), Dr. Philipp Rösler (Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, Federal Republic of Germany), Günther Oettinger (Commissioner for Energy, European Union), Aleksandr Novak (Minister of Energy, Russian Federation), Jorma Ollila (Chairman of the Board of Directors, Royal Dutch Shell), Carlos Pascual (Ambassador, Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, U.S. Department of State).

Thomas de Maizière's Opening Address

German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière's Opening Address at the 2013 MSC.

The conference hall during the opening session

A view of the conference hall during Wolfgang Ischinger's welcome remarks.