Tehran, Oct 17, IRNA - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived in Tehran early Saturday to attend the preliminary meeting of the Munich Security Conference slated to be held in the Iranian capital today.

Steinmeier is also slated to hold meetings with the senior Iranian officials on recent developments in the Middle East, Syria in particular.

The preliminary meeting of Munich Security Summit to be hosted by the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Institute for International and Political Studies (IIPS) will open in Tehran on Saturday.

The meeting will be held in the presence of German and Lebanese top diplomats and high-ranking officials of 60 world states.

The 52nd Munich Security Conference is due to be held on February 12-14, 2016.

The 51st Munich Security Conference took place from 6 to 8 February 2015. Over 400 renowned decision-makers in international politics, including about twenty heads of states and governments and more than sixty foreign and defense ministers, came together to discuss the current and future issues in foreign and security policy.

By IRNA