... maintaining security and peace in the Middle East, expanding alternative regional formats of cooperation in economy, finance, trade, high technology and education, developing and strengthening the sovereignty and independence of the countries of the Middle East and creating alternative platforms of negotiations in the region. It is also worth boosting interaction between China and Russia to achieve a diplomatic and political solution to the Syrian conflict and develop a post-war reconstruction plan for the country.
Ivan Bocharov, RIAC Program Coordinator, and Jin Liangxiang, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for West Asian and African Studies of SIIS, moderated the round table.
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... competition in other parts of the region. This will make it possible for Saudi Arabia and Iran to develop more constructive relations.
With time, it may be worth considering the possibility of creating a regional multilateral security organisation in the Middle East on a collective basis, with the involvement of Russia, China, the United States and the European Union as observers.
The settlement of the Syrian crisis and the post-conflict reconstruction of the country will require large-scale investments. If a plan for political transition in Syria in the interests of all parties to the conflict and the Assad regime uses force to suppress its opponents,...
... holding a high-level Track II meeting on security issues in the Middle East region.
On September 23–25, 2018, in Paris, international ... ... diplomats and leading international experts from the United States, China, India, and a number of European countries. The aim of the ... ... Middle East issues.
The discussion focuses on acute crises in Syria, Yemen, and Libya, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,... ... Vice-President, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, represent Russian side at the meeting.
... stabilisation and reconstruction of Syria.
Germany’s Southern corridor to Greater Eurasia
A German pivot to the Middle East would have repercussions far beyond the European Union. It may open a Southern corridor to building Greater Eurasia. In the Middle East, and in particular in Syria, Germany has common security interests with two major Eurasian powers: Russia and China. German involvement in the political stabilisation and reconstruction of Syria, including through EU initiatives, would open new opportunities to develop dialogue and cooperation between Germany and Russia. A mutually beneficial relationship between ...
Relations between the U.S. and Russia appear to be almost at the point of no return
Relations ... ... Then, in early April 2017, the U.S. fired 59 cruise missiles at Syrian airbase on grounds that the Syrian military had allegedly ... ... expanded to include other states, such as the European states and China?
Washington is also in the process of modernizing its tactical ... ... Poland and Romania, as well as in Japan, South Korea, and the Middle East.
How might the 2013 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ...
... clear in 2014, which was marked by the abrupt transformation of Russia’s relations with the outside world. This was also ... ... but have neither the time nor enough self-restraint for this. In Syria, Russia and the United States found themselves on the brink ... ... cleared the air. The West has to take Russia into account in the Middle East, but will not become its strategic ally or even a partner ... ... although the ideology of these structures is not anti-Western. Here China is Russia’s main partner. In the US view, China’s ...
The Intelligence Community, regardless of regime type, has famously always tried to co-opt and ultimately adopt advancements and evolutions in technology, especially in terms of media. Newspapers, radio, and television have long been appropriated in order to influence, massage, and outright manipulate messages and events important to the national interest. Often the question is not so much whether a country’s intelligence community engages in such activity but rather how explicit and open will...