Vice President Biden to Urge Strong Cooperation among Allies to Confront Common Security and
Economic Challenges 

The Vice President will travel to Germany later today to represent the United States and
address the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy, also known as the Wehrkunde Conference.
General James L. Jones, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, will also
attend the conference. The Munich Security Conference is an annual gathering of government
officials, foreign and defense policy experts and journalists to discuss Trans-Atlantic
security issues. 

In his speech to the conference and in bilateral meetings with foreign leaders, Vice President
Biden will discuss the need for strong partnerships to meet our common challenges. He will urge
cooperation among our allies to confront the security and economic issues of a post-Cold War
and post-9/11 world. 

The following is a notional schedule for the Vice President?s trip:

Friday February 6, 2009: Travel to Munich, Germany

Saturday, February 7, 2009: The Vice President will address the Annual Munich Conference on
Security Policy at 12:20 PM LOCAL TIME in Germany/6:20 AM EDT. The speech is open to
credentialed press in Munich and will be covered by the Vice President?s traveling pool. The
print pooler is David S. Cloud with Politico; the network pooler is ABC. 

In addition to his speech, he will engage in bilateral meetings with German Chancellor Angela
Merkel; Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk; Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko; French
President Nicholas Sarkozy; British Foreign Secretary David Miliband; NATO Secretary General
Jakob Gijsbert de Hoop Scheffer; German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. 

In the evening, he will host a reception for the U.S. Congressional Delegation and German
Bundestag members, and attend a dinner hosted by the Minister President of Bavaria Horst
Seehofer.

Sunday, February 8, 2009: The Vice President will engage in bilateral meetings with Georgian
President Mikheil Saakashvili, as well as the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Ivanov. He will
then travel back to the United States.