🗣 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 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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