IPI MENA Director Nejib Friji and H.H Shaikh Faisal bin Rashid bin Isa Al Khalifa, Vice President of the Supreme Council for Environment (SCE) discussed the water challenges in the MENA region, in particular the issues of water scarcity and its threat to regional peace and stability on October 17th.Both parties pledged cooperation in those […]
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Water experts from the MENA region called on the regional parties and international community to strengthen “water diplomacy” as a preventive action and a path to achieve sustainable development and durable peace.Inaugurating IPI MENA’s Water Preventive Diplomacy Conference on April 11, 2018, H.E Dr. Abdul Hussain bin Ali Mirza, Bahrain’s Minister of Electricity and Water […]
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Using preventive diplomacy to find sustainable solutions to water-related challenges in the MENA region is the strategic objective of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on October 17, 2017 by IPI President Terje Rod-Larsen, and Shaban Abdelhamid Osman, President & CEO of 1958 Project Management & Marketing S.P.C (1958 PMM).During the signing ceremony held at […]
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