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Bucharest will be these days the capital of European and Euro-Atlantic diplomacy, something that proves Romania's strategic role in the Black Sea area, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bogdan Aurescu said on Monday, ahead of the opening of the Munich Leaders Meeting (MLM), co-organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) and the Munich Security Conference, at the Royal Palace.
The organization of the meeting in Bucharest "is a recognition of Romania's strategic role in the Black Sea, because the things that happen in the Black Sea do not stay in the Black Sea," declared Aurescu.
The meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs will take place in Bucharest on November 29 and 30.
The Munich Leaders Meeting brings to Bucharest, on November 28 and 29, over 75 high-level participants from over 25 countries, current and former officials, renowned experts and analysts, opinion leaders, to address topics of major interest on the regional, European and Euro-Atlantic agenda. The interactive debates of the Munich Leaders Meeting are conducted behind closed doors, under the Chatham House Rule.
The Bucharest MLM meeting is part of the annual program of the prestigious Munich Security Conference and is organized in preparation for the February 2023 Conference. The previous MLM meeting took place in Washington, in May 2022.
It is the first time in the history of this format that the event takes place in South-Eastern Europe.
The agenda of the meeting in Bucharest will include topics relevant to international security, with emphasis on developments in the Eastern region, the Black Sea region and the Western Balkans.
The European security architecture, the implementation of NATO's new Strategic Concept, hybrid threats, food security, the energy crisis will also be among the topics addressed.
According to the MAE, the impact of the Bucharest event will be far-reaching, its results will contribute to the substantiation of the debates that will take place next year, at the Security Conference in Munich.AGERPRES
