Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking at the 43rd Munich Security Policy Conference. February 10, 2007 VIENNA, February 10, Margarita Kostiv.Russian President Vladimir Putin was right in his Munich speech in 2007, the situation in the world has since become even more aggravated, former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl said in an interview with RIA Novosti. February 10 marks 15 years since Putin delivered his famous speech at the Munich Security Conference. He then severely criticized US foreign policy and the ideas of a unipolar world order, sharply opposed plans for NATO expansion and the deployment of American missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe. that the speech was actually in an intermediate phase. Some things are perhaps better judged 15 years later, and I came to the conclusion that President Putin was then very right in his words and in his warnings, «Kneissl said. According to her, all today's diplomatic meetings and correspondence are only the result of the lack of activity over the past 15 years, primarily from the West. «When I watched this speech again a few days ago, it seemed to me that it clarifies a lot. You immediately feel how much personal I would say that, in fact, about everything that President Putin spoke about then, one has to state that, firstly, he, unfortunately, he was right, and secondly, since then everything has become even worse and more difficult,» the agency's interlocutor stated.“What, should we fight NATO?”: Putin summed up the results of negotiations with Macron Moscow, in particular, demanded from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further eastward expansion of NATO, joining the Ukrainian bloc, and establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. However, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, it was their Western partners who ignored them in their written response. The Munich Conference was founded in 1963 as a «meeting of representatives of the defense departments» of NATO member countries. Now it is an international discussion forum for politicians, diplomats, military, businessmen, scientists and public figures from dozens of countries. The conference is traditionally held in the Bayerischer Hof hotel in the historic center of the Bavarian capital. Munich does not sign the final communiqués and agreements, while the conference is an important and relatively neutral meeting place and discussion for world-class politicians and diplomats. Munich speech by Vladimir Putin (2007)
