On June 30 – July 2, 2019, Rabat (Morocco) hosted the fourth Track II High-Level meeting on security issues in the Middle East region. The meeting was organized by the international political consulting agency The Shaikh Group.
On June 30 – July 2, 2019, Rabat (Morocco) hosted the fourth Track II High-Level meeting on security issues in the Middle East region. The meeting was organized by the international political consulting agency The Shaikh Group.
The meeting is attended by former high-ranking diplomats and leading international experts from the United States, China, India, and a number of European countries. The aim of the discussion is comparative analysis of the perceptions of great powers on the general dynamics of development in the Middle East, most significant challenges and threats emanating from the region, possible mechanisms and sequencing of solutions to Middle East issues.
Previous meetings focused on the problems of Syrian settlement, the ongoing civil war in Yemen, and overcoming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The meeting in Rabat was devoted to the ongoing escalation of the US-Iran relations, threats of military-political escalation in the Persian Gulf zone, the search for Iran’s integration models, and the regional security system. The Russian side was represented at the meeting by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, Irina Zvyagelskaya and Elena Suponina, RIAC experts.