BERLIN, November 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told thousands of people gathered on Monday to mark the 20h anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall about the importance of a multipolar world.

Speaking along with leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Medvedev expressed hopes for an end to the conflict that existed when the Berlin Wall stood.

"Here in Berlin, all of us hope that the period of confrontation has gone. The transition to the new, multipolar world today is very important for the majority of countries," the Russian president said.

After World War II, the victorious countries divided Germany into four zones of occupation - Soviet, U.S., French and British, which became East and West Germany. The 160-km barrier between East and West Berlin, first erected in 1961, became the symbolic demarcation line between the socialist camp in Eastern Europe and the West.