On March 20-23, 2018, Cadenabbia, Italy, hosted the third German-Russian expert meeting on security issues in and around Europe.
The meeting is held annually with the support of Konrad Adenauer Foundation and aims to compare the positions of Germany and Russia on a wide range of issues of international security, identify coinciding and diverging interests, and define possible areas for cooperation between the two countries.
On March 20-23, 2018, Cadenabbia, Italy, hosted the third German-Russian expert meeting on security issues in and around Europe.
The meeting is held annually with the support of Konrad Adenauer Foundation and aims to compare the positions of Germany and Russia on a wide range of issues of international security, identify coinciding and diverging interests, and define possible areas for cooperation between the two countries.
The third expert meeting was held in the context of the formation of a new government coalition in Berlin, along with with some radical personnel reshuffle in the German Federal Government. The following topics were discussed: common priorities of the two countries in the area of security, approaches to the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, issues of control over nuclear and conventional weapons, the Syrian conflict and the situation in the Middle East, and countering international terrorism.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, as well as RIAC experts Dmitry Danilov (Institute of Europe RAS), Irina Zvyagelskaya (Institute of Oriental Studies RAS), Tatiana Parkhalina (RAS Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences), and Sergey Utkin (RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations) represented Russia at the event.
