Watch: Kamala Harris and Emmanuel Macron among arrivals for Munich Security Conference
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Your support makes all the difference.Watch as attendants of this year’s Munich Security Conference arrived for the first day of the event on Friday morning.
Kamala Harris, the US vice president, and Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, are among the heads of government and state who will gather in Germany in the coming days.
This year’s conference comes one year on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and days after the US shot down a number of aerial objects over North American airspace.
On Thursday, Joe Biden suggested there was no evidence that they are connected to China.
“We don’t yet know exactly what these three objects were but nothing right now suggests they were related to China’s spy balloon program or that they were surveillance vehicles from any other country,” the president said.
“The intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research.”
This year’s Munich Security Conference runs from 17 to 19 February.
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