Pawlenty headed to Germany this weekend
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Gov. Pawlenty says he's headed to Germany this weekend to attend the 44th Munich Conference on Security Policy. Pawlenty says he's been invited to the event by the Secretary of State, the Department of Defense and Congress. Pawlenty says he'll be flying out of Washington D.C. on Thursday and will return to Minnesota on Sunday. He said he was invited because of his role as governor and chair of the National Governor's Association.
"The idea is there's a conference on security which obviously affects states, which affects nations which affects all of us," Pawlenty said.
The conference website says two heads of states, 25 defense ministers and 15 foreign ministers are slated to discuss pressing global issues like Afghanistan, the future role of NATO, current crisis hot spots, Asia, Russia, the Balkan region and disarmament. The general theme of the conference will be "a world in disorder" with shifting positions of power. Pawlenty will be traveling with Republican presidential hopeful, John McCain. Pawlenty is co-chairing McCain's presidential committee.
The conference has also been the target of massive protesting in the past few years.
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