Lithuanias President Grybauskaitė delivers the
opening address at the Munich Security Conference.
Photo courtesy lrp.lt
The 47th annual international Munich Security Conference was held in Munich, Germany, 4-6 February 2011. President Dalia Grybauskaitė of Lithuania delivered the opening address of
the conference at the conference dinner on February 4. Her address was very well received and widely discussed. Also present at the conference was Australias Foreign Minister
Kevin Rudd.
President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Australias
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd in the row behind.
Photo courtesy lrp.lt
During the conference President Grybauskaitė declared that the Munich Conference is very important to Lithuania, as well as to the rest of the world. She deplored attempts to divide Europe
into geographical sectors of defence. We are just counting two decades since there are no dividing lines on Europe's map. It would be difficult to explain to Lithuanians why we need new
divisions", she declared. In acknowledgement of her impressive opening address, a large bouquet of flowers was presented to her by Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the
Munich Security Conference.
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