🗣 TODAY, on February 13, at 09:55 Moscow time, the opening of the Valdai Club 13th annual Middle East Conference, titled “Time for decisive action: a comprehensive settlement for the sake of stability in the region,” will take place at the Club’s headquarters in Moscow.

📆 Programme for February 13, Tuesday

09:55 – 10:00 — Opening of the conference (live: English, Arabic, Russian)

10:00 – 11:30 — Session 1. Towards a Comprehensive Settlement in the Middle East (live: English, Arabic, Russian)

The world is witnessing another round of violence in the Middle East, triggered by the unsolved crisis in Palestine. It has been going on for more than seventy years, despite a series of UN Security Council resolutions that should have paved the way for peace settlement. In recent years, there have been attempts to essentially freeze the peace process, which has only made the status quo more dangerous. Only realization of the legitimate rights of the peoples living there can serve as foundation for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, and this requires a constructive approach of all parties concerned.

12:00 – 13:30 — Meeting with Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (live: English, Arabic, Russian)

14:30 – 16:00 — Session 2. Heritage of Colonial Policy and Its Echoes in the Middle East (live: English, Arabic, Russian)

The clash of interests between Russia and Western countries in Eastern Europe accelerates the crumbling of the global post-colonial system. Regional in its nature, the security crisis in Europe indirectly triggered developments in other regions of the world. A chain of conflicts of varying degrees of intensity leads to a change in the overall balance and generally contributes to the weakening of Western dominance. Double standards in the West's assessment of the developments in Ukraine and Palestine, bias and lack of desire to find a fair and balanced solution give additional impetus to changes on the world stage.

16:30 – 18:00 — Session 3. Question of Palestine – What Is Next? (live: English, Arabic, Russian)

The crisis of autumn 2023 has brought the question of Palestine back to the centre of the political agenda in the Middle East and around the world. Those who in recent years were inclined to think that the issue was peripheral have been convinced that this is not the case. The war in Gaza has shown that there is no solution by force, but that the political and diplomatic process requires fundamental rethinking. How can we respond to the challenge of the situation while ensuring the legitimate rights to security and development of all the peoples involved.

Programme of the 13th Middle East Conference

Links to the live broadcast of open sessions will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VKontakte, Telegram and Dzen.

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🎥 LIVE: at 09:55 Moscow time, the opening of the Valdai Club 13th annual Middle East Conference “Time for decisive action: a comprehensive settlement for the sake of stability in the region,” will start, and its first session, titled “Towards a Comprehensive Settlement in the Middle East,” will follow. Watch the live broadcast:

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In Arabic

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📌 Programme of the 13th Middle East Conference

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🎥 LIVE: at 12:00 Moscow time, the meeting with Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation @MFARussia, will take place within the framework of the Middle East Conference. Watch the live broadcast:

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🗣 The meeting with Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation @MFARussia, within the framework of the Middle East Conference

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🌍 The main consequence of colonialism and imperialism in the Middle East is that even decades after the collapse of the colonial system, the region has not become one of the world’s centres of power, although it has the civilisational potential necessary for this.

From the point of view of interstate relations, the Western powers left behind a very painful legacy. After all, the boundaries of mandated territories and emerging states were drawn in the interests of the colonial powers and did not take into account the realities on the ground. Thus, Greater Syria (the Levant) was divided into four politically and militarily weak entities: Lebanon, present-day Syria, Jordan and Palestine. Disagreements, contradictions and rivalries weakened the countries of the region.

The colonial powers left behind the potential not only for numerous territorial disputes, but also for the emergence of chronic tensions, writes Nikolay Surkov, senior researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, IMEMO RAS, for the 13th Middle East Conference of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-middle-east-from-dependency-and-clientelism/

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🎥 LIVE: at 14:30 Moscow time, the second session of the Valdai Club Middle East Conference, titled “Heritage of Colonial Policy and Its Echoes in the Middle East,” will start. Watch the live broadcast:

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📌 Programme of the 13th Middle East Conference

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🗣 Session 2 of the Valdai Club Middle East Conference, titled “Heritage of Colonial Policy and Its Echoes in the Middle East”

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🎥 LIVE: at 16:30 Moscow time, the third session of the Valdai Club Middle East Conference, titled “Question of Palestine – What Is Next?,” will start. Watch the live broadcast:

In English

In Arabic

In Russian

📌 Programme of the 13th Middle East Conference

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🗣 The first day of the Valdai Club Middle East Conference was completed by the third session , titled “Question of Palestine – What Is Next?”

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