Over 800 delegates from 76 countries, including defense ministers, deputy defense ministers and chiefs of the General Staff, will participate in the XI Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS-2023) starting on Tuesday, organized by the Russian Defense Ministry. Its theme is "Realities of Global Security in a Multipolar World".
President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will also be felicitated. Russian Defense Minister General Sergei Shoigu, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin will report on key issues of global security in a multipolar world.
The Russian military department also reported that views and assessments of the current situation will be presented in speeches by the defense ministers of China, Belarus, the deputy chief of the General Staff of Iran, as well as the heads of defense departments of about 20 other friendly states.