On November 14-15, 2014 Oslo hosted a Russia-U.S. expert meeting on bilateral cooperation in the Middle East sponsored by the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Center and RIAC with financial support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The discussion focused on overall Middle Eastern trends, civil war in Syria, Iraq, Arab-Israeli settlement, nuclear nonproliferation, international terrorism and political extremism, as well as the global governance crisis.
On November 14-15, 2014 Oslo hosted a Russia-U.S. expert meeting on bilateral cooperation in the Middle East sponsored by the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Center and RIAC with financial support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
The Russian side was represented by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Vice-President of Transneft Mikhail Margelov, Director of RAS Institute for Oriental Studies Vitaly Naumkin, former Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Mamedov (all RIAC members), as well as RIAC analysts including Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies Irina Zvyagelskaya, Director of Center for Political Systems Transformation at MSU World Politics Department Vassily Kuznetsov, and Director of the Asia and Middle East Center at Russian Institute for Strategic Studies Elena Suponina. The U.S. team included former top diplomats and key experts on the Middle East.
The discussion focused on overall Middle Eastern trends, civil war in Syria, Iraq, Arab-Israeli settlement, nuclear nonproliferation, international terrorism and political extremism, as well as the global governance crisis.
