The German government says the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers will meet on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich next month, according to AP. The Quartet is made up of the U.S., the U.N., the European Union and Russia. German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Friday the quartet will hold a high-level meeting during the Feb. 4-6 conference in Munich _ a major annual forum for defense and security policy officials. Seibert says U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will attend. Seibert says Germany hopes for an «urgently needed stimulus for the Middle East peace process.»
