Director General Participates at World Economic Forum for Middle East
Dr. ElBaradei Speaks at Panel on Economic, Security Developments in Region
Dr. ElBaradei and panelists at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, May 2008. (Photo: WEF)
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IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei participated this week with global leaders in forward-looking sessions on economic and security developments in the Middle East, including nuclear developments. The venue was the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, which concluded 20 May 2008 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
Dr. ElBaradei was among distinguished panelists of a session entitled Fresh Strategies for Stability in the context of economic and security developments in the region. Other members of the panel were Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt; Nader Al Dahabi, Prime Minister of Jordan; Brian Baird, US Congressman; Ali Babacan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chief Negotiator of Turkey; and Alexander Saltanov, Special Envoy of the Russian Foreign Minister for the Middle East and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The panel was moderated by Christopher Dickey, the Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek Magazine.
The Forum´s theme - Learning from the Future - invited participants to address the region´s most pressing, uncertain and challenging topics, such as the global food crisis, climate change and sustainability, inflation and the global financial order, and political instability.
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