On Sunday, September 22, 2024, IPI held its nineteenth annual Ministerial Working Dinner on the Middle East in its Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security, and Development. The dinner drew the participation of foreign ministers and other high-level representatives.

The event was chaired by IPI President Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and co-hosted by Qatar and the European Union, represented respectively by Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar, and Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission.

Participants had a frank discussion on regional issues held under the Chatham House Rule.

Attendees included Ahmed Attaf, Minister for Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria; Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia H.E. Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of BahrainAbdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain; Badr Abdelatty, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt; George Gerapetritis, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic; Fuad Mohammad Hussein, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq; Ayman Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Murat Nurtleu, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Abdullah Ali Al-Yahya, Foreign Minister of the State of Kuwait; Abdallah Bouhabib, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants of Lebanon; Dominique Hasler, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Education, and Sport of the Principality of Liechtenstein; Micheál Martin, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland; Xavier Bettel, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs of Luxembourg; Mohamad Hasan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia; Mohammad Mustafa, Prime Minister of the State of Palestine; Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Tanja Fajon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovenia; Diego Martínez Belío, Secretary of State for International and Global Affairs of Spain; Mohamad Ali Nafti, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration, and Tunisians abroad; Nuh Yılmaz, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye; Espen Barth Eide, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway; Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Al-Khulaifi, Minister of State to the State of Qatar; and Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General of the League of Arab States.

Also present were Omar Dajani, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific; A Land for All; May Pundak, A Land for All; Helen Clark, President Chatham House; Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council; Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); Valerie Amos, Master, University College Oxford, Member of IPI’s Board of Directors; Prince Turki AlFaisal, Chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies and member of IPI’s International Advisory Council; Hissein Brahim Taha, Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation; Amr Moussa, Former Secretary General of the League of Arab States and member of IPI’s International Advisory Council; Anwar Gargash, Senior Diplomatic Advisor to the President of the United Arab Emirates; Rosemary A. DiCarlo, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs; Sigrid Kaag, United Nations Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza; Mary Robinson, Chair of the Elders, First female President of Ireland, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group; Miguel Moratinos, High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations; Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; Jeffrey Feltman, Former USG –DPPA and John C. Whitehead Visiting Fellow in International Diplomacy in the Foreign Policy program, Brookings Institute; Tor Wennesland, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority; Sven Koopmans, EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process; Stavros Lambrinidis, Ambassador of the European Union to the United Nations; and Richard Branson, Founder and Chairman of the Virgin Group.