Israeli President Shimon Peres told a gathering at IPI of all fifteen Security Council members and the ambassadors of Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority that a UN vote on Palestinian statehood would not bring peace to the Middle East. Mr. Peres argued the UN could not create a state that Israel could accept because […]
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An ABC-Australia profile of Terje Rød-Larsen, “The Man Behind the Peace” (JourneyMan Pictures/YouTube, 1994).
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In a briefing at IPI’s Vienna office, IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen warned that the situation in Egypt could have historic ramifications.
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Addressing a standing-room-only audience gathered to discuss the January 9th referendum in Southern Sudan, Hilde F. Johnson said it was crucial for the international community to “speed up the process on resolving the critical post-referendum issues and to do so urgently.”Listing those issues, she said, “This means border demarcation, cooperation on oil and pipeline use, […]
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Delaying the referendum on independence in Southern Sudan would risk resumption of civil war, the head of the region’s government said, even as the U.S. suggested it will be hard to organize a credible vote on Jan. 9. Read transcript“We see this timing as sacred,” Salva Kiir, president of the government of southern Sudan and […]
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On Sunday, September 19th, IPI convened its Fifth Informal Ministerial Dinner on the Middle East in its Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security, and Development.The working dinner was attended by some thirty foreign ministers and other high-level representatives from the Middle East, Europe, and beyond. It was co-chaired by IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen and the […]
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Three former Canadian diplomats with extensive experience in the Middle East have spent six years developing a formula for the passionately contested final status of Jerusalem’s Old City, and on July 13, they came to IPI to present their findings.The three, Michael Bell, Michael J. Molloy and John Bell, developed the project at the University […]
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On June 25th, Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erakat and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor debated the current Israeli-Palestinian peace process before a packed audience at IPI that included members of the press, UN ambassadors, and others guests from academia and the diplomatic community.CNN reported the following about the event:“Meridor said that the Israelis were […]
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The International Peace Institute and the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the UN held an informal retreat on June 25-26th for the UN Security Council.The retreat gathered the members of the UN Security Council at ambassadorial level, as well as senior staff of the UN Secretariat, with the aim of discussing, in an informal and […]
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On April 26, 2010, IPI, together with the governments of Luxembourg and Spain, hosted a ministerial working dinner in Senningen, Luxembourg on the way forward for the Middle East peace process. The dinner was co-chaired by IPI President Terje Rød-Larsen and Foreign Ministers Jean Asselborn of Luxembourg and Miguel Moratinos of Spain.The meeting, which was […]
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