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Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, has released a statement ahead of the Munich security conference (which we mention in our post here), which starts today. She criticises Russia for its “cold war demands” and for declining to attend the meeting.
“With an unprecedented deployment of troops on the border with Ukraine and cold war demands, Russia is challenging fundamental principles of the European peace order,” Baerbock said in a statement.
“I am travelling to Munich today to discuss how we can still counter the logic of threats of violence and military escalation with the logic of dialogue ... It is a loss that Russia is not taking advantage of this opportunity.”
