Editing Munich Security Conference (section)

===2011===
The 47th Munich Security Conference<ref>{{Cite web |title=Egypt, terrorism lead discussion at Munich Security Conference |url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14819779,00.html |access-date=12 December 2012 |publisher=Dw-world.de}}</ref> was held from 4 to 6 February 2011 and again assembled top-level decision makers from all over the world, including [[UN Secretary-General]] [[Ban Ki-moon]], [[German Chancellor]] [[Angela Merkel]], [[British Prime Minister]] [[David Cameron]] [[U.S. Secretary of State]] [[Hillary Clinton]] and Russian Foreign Minister [[Sergey Lavrov]] whilst [[Belarus]] was excluded from the circle of attendees because of the country's human rights situation.

In 2011, two special features marked the growing role of the Munich Security Conference as a centre of attention of international security policy: [[European Union]]'s High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy [[Catherine Ashton]] called for the Quartet on the [[Middle East]], consisting of the [[European Union|EU]], Russia, the United States and the [[UN]], to meet within the setting of the 2011 Munich Security Conference; and during a ceremony on the sidelines of the conference, the [[New START|New START Treaty]] (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) entered into force when Russia's [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|Foreign Minister]] [[Sergey Lavrov]] and [[U.S. Secretary of State]] [[Hillary Clinton]] exchanged the instruments of ratification.