Munich Security Conference Core Group Meeting Kicks off in Doha

Doha – Information Office - October 29

The Munich Security Conference Core Group Meeting hosted by the State of Qatar kicked off Tuesday at Qatar National Museum and will continue for two days. Held under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the meeting will be attended by high-level representatives of governments, international institutions and academics. The meeting is an opportunity to discuss regional and global security issues. The meeting raises a range of current issues of escalation in Middle East conflicts, as well as general regional challenges such as cybersecurity and energy security.

The Munich Security Conference Core Group Meeting provides a platform for discussion between 60 to 80 high-level political decision-makers, experts and representatives of international civil society organizations from the region and their counterparts from Europe and the rest of the world.

HE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said in a speech prior to the start of the meeting that the main objective of hosting the meeting comes within the framework of the efforts made to reduce the repercussions of the issues in the region, which afflict many countries of the world, as well as the challenges of the Gulf in particular.

His Excellency welcomed the participants in the meeting, wishing them a pleasant stay in the State of Qatar, and hoped that the discussions will lead to the achievement of effective solutions that can benefit everyone.

For his part, HE Chairman of Munich Security Conference Core Group Meeting Wolfgang Ischinger said that the Conference is a leading platform for dialogue and the development of cybersecurity as well as initiatives linked between governments and the private sector, as well as discussing security issues in the region and some countries of the world that cast a shadow on global security especially the conflict in Syria and Yemen.

His Excellency stressed the need to address the challenges that pose a threat to governments, individuals and global security, pointing in this context that the number of devices in the world linked to the Internet is up to 20 billion devices and these devices pose a grave threat to governments, individuals and global security, stressing that this requires the highest standards of cybersecurity.

His Excellency added that there was still a long way to go for countries, governments, companies, individuals and users to have full confidence in the cyberspace and leaving this to the private sector will cause full distrust of managing the challenges associated with the digital future, and it is therefore time for governments to come forward to participate in the field of cybersecurity, and this field must receive the attention of leaders and managers to explain to their subordinates the importance of this area.