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On May 4, 2016 the Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe published its fourth Position Paper “Countering the Threats from the Middle East” on the web-sites of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), the European Leadership Network (ELN), the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) and the International Strategic Research Organization in Ankara (USAK).

On May 4, 2016 the Task Force on Cooperation in Greater Europe published its fourth Position Paper “Countering the Threats from the Middle East” on the web-sites of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), the European Leadership Network (ELN), the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) and the International Strategic Research Organization in Ankara (USAK).

In its paper, the Task Force emphasizes that the best way to ensure stability in the region in the long term is creating an integrated security system in the Middle East. It recommends regional actors to draw on the experience of the Helsinki process and the OSCE practices.

Igor S. Ivanov, former Russia’s Foreign Minister, President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Task Force Co-Chair); Desmond Browne, former British Defense Secretary (Task Force Co-Chair); Adam Daniel Rotfeld, former Poland’s Foreign Minister (Task Force Co-Chair); Özdem Sanberk, Director of the International Strategic Research Organization, former Undersecretary of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Task Force Co-Chair); Alexei Gromyko, Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member; Malcolm Rifkind, former British Foreign and Defense Secretary; Tarja Cronberg, Former Member of the European Parliament and former Director of the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute; Anatoly Adamishin, President of the Non-Governmental Organization “Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation.”, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation; Hikmet Cetin, former Turkish Foreign Minister; Borys Tarasyuk, former Ukrainian Foreign Minister; Pierre Lellouche, former French Secretary of State for Foreign Trade.

 

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