Medvedev to meet with participants in Munich conference

MOSCOW, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with a group of participants in a visiting session of the Munich
Conference on Security Policy on Wednesday.
It has become known from informed sources in the Kremlin that current
and former statesmen and political figures of the United States, Germany,
and a number of European countries, leading experts on international
relations, members of the business community and media people will be
present at the meeting. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Adam Rothfeld, and Carl Bildt
are also expected to take part in the meeting.
The Munich Conference was founded in 1962 by German publisher Ewald
von Kleist as a get-together of Defence Ministry officials of NATO
member-countries.
Nowadays the Conference is an international forum that draws
politicians, diplomats, military men, businessmen, science people and
public figures from more than 40 countries.
The present Munich Conference visiting session from October 19 to 20
is held in the Russian capital for the first time on the initiative of its
chairman Wolfgang Ischinger. This is a second such session. The first one
was held in Washington at the end of 2009.
A Kremlin source said, "During the forthcoming meeting, those present
are to exchange views on a wide range of items that are on the
Euro-Atlantic agenda". They are expected to focus on Dmitry Medvedev's
initiative aimed at concluding a European Security Treaty, which is
intended to consolidate in a legally binding form the principle of the
indivisibility of security throughout the area stretching from Vancouver
to Vladivostok.
Participants in the meeting are also to discuss other matters of
current importance concerning European security architecture -- with due
regard for the results of the Russo-French-German summit held in Deauville
from October 18 to19, as well as the forthcoming summits of NATO in Lisbon
in November and of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
in Astana early in December.
Those present at the upcoming meeting are also expected to discuss
such important multilateral-cooperation matters as enhancement of arms
control, disarmament and non-proliferation problems, and the consequences
of the world financial and economic downturn for international stability
and security.
Kremlin analysts believe that "The forthcoming visiting session of the
Munich Conference in Moscow will contribute to deepening debates on a
reform of the European security architecture, to keeping them within a
constructive vein, and on this basis to giving greater scope to
cooperation among countries in the Euro-Atlantic area in efforts to
counteract the entire spectrum of new challenges and threats to security".

.Police operations officer killed in Ingushetia.

NAZRAN, October 20 (Itar-Tass) - In the Republic of Ingushetia,
unidentified attackers, firing at point-blank range, gunned down Rustam
Kartoyev, a police operations officer of the Malgobek city police
department, at about 20:30, Moscow time, on Tuesday.
The attack victim died of wounds in hosptial later on. An
investigation is under way in connection with the fact of attack, a
republican Interior Ministry source has told Itar-Tass.