March 5, 2017

"Russian President Vladimir Putin often used the annual Munich Security Conference as a stage to deliver Moscow's national security policy to other countries. He scolded the US and NATO for their Russia policy at the 2007 conference, which marked an end to the ameliorated US-Russia ties, resulted from their anti-terrorism cooperation. The bilateral relationship was at its lowest ebb since the Cold War. Since then, the conference has evolved into a battlefield for Russia and the US.

The main themes of this year's Munich Security Conference, held from February 17 to 19, were the Syrian crisis, Iran's nuclear deal and the US foreign policy. Aside from the above agenda, new US Vice President Mike Pence was supposed to be the main speaker at the event and talked about Washington's security and foreign policy. However, he was overshadowed by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who called for a 'post-West' world order."

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