Rubio expected at Munich Security Conference: Organizers

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to lead a large American delegation at the Munich Security Conference, an event set to focus on turbulent geopolitics, organizers said Monday.

More than 60 heads of state and government and around 100 foreign and defense ministers are due to participate in the security policy talks from February 13 to 15.

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The annual meeting in the southern German city was upended last year when US Vice President JD Vance delivered a blistering attack on European democracy and immigration and free speech policies.

Although Vance is not expected this year, Rubio will head a US delegation that will also include around 50 members of the US Congress, Wolfgang Ischinger, director of the event, told a press conference.

Asked whether he expected Rubio to replicate Vance’s attack on Europe, Ischinger replied: “I am assuming... that we can expect the US Secretary of State to talk about US foreign policy and not about issues that do not directly fall under his purview.”

Around half of the US delegation will be Democrats, among them California Governor Gavin Newsom, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ischinger said.

The German former diplomat said he expected Europe’s relations with the United States and President Donald Trump’s aggressive foreign policy to dominate this year’s event.

“The country that shaped, supported and defended the international order after 1945 like no other has come to the conclusion under its new leadership that this order is no longer in its interest,” Ischinger said.

The established international order “is being demolished, so to speak,” he said.

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