Jens Stoltenberg’s future has been clarified: the outgoing NATO chief will become chairman of the Munich Security Conference – and will therefore remain responsible for security policy.
Stoltenberg will replace Christoph Heusgen as head of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) next year. Corresponding reports from the news portal “Politico” and the German editorial network (RND) were confirmed to the German press agency from various sources.
There was initially no official confirmation. A spokeswoman for the Munich Security Conference told dpa that they generally do not comment on personnel matters. NATO also initially declined to comment on the subject when asked by dpa.
Rutte succeeds Stoltenberg as NATO chief
Stoltenberg will hand over his ten-year tenure as NATO Secretary General to former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on October 1. Heusgen, a former top diplomat and longtime adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), only took over the chairmanship of the security conference from Wolfgang Ischinger in 2022.+
Ischinger is chairman of the board of the MSC Foundation and founded the foundation in 2011. According to the RND, Ischinger is said to have described Stoltenberg as the “incomparably best choice” for the supervisory board.
Stoltenberg, 65, was prime minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2013. In 2011, he also led his country through the difficult period after the attacks in the government district of Oslo and on the island of Utøya, in which right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik killed a total of 77 people.
Security policy remains Stoltenberg’s focus
Since its foundation in 1963, the Munich Security Conference has developed into one of the most important international forums for security policy. Every year in February, high-ranking politicians, NATO defence ministers, military experts and representatives of the defence industry meet at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich to discuss security policy issues. The focus is on issues affecting the security of NATO states.
Source: Krone
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