WASHINGTON – This weekend, U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) will travel to Munich to participate in the Munich Security Conference (MSC). Murphy will hold meetings with a number of international partners to discuss the world’s most pressing security concerns, including the threat posed by ISIL, acts of terror against Western nations, women and girls, and the Iran nuclear negotiations. Murphy will be joined by U.S. Senators John McCain (R- Ariz.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D- R.I.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and U.S. Congressmen Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), Jim Langevin (D-R.I.), and Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas).

Over the past five decades the MSC has become a key annual gathering for the international "strategic community." Since its foundation in 1963 as "Internationale Wehrkunde-Begegnung," the MSC has been an independent forum dedicated to promoting peaceful conflict resolution and international cooperation and dialogue in dealing with today’s and future security challenges.