The World Economic Forum at the Dead Sea

Published: May 20, 2009, 7:30 a.m.

World Economic Forum on the Middle East was held at the Dead Sea, Jordan on 15-17 May 2009. Alexander Saltanov, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, agreed that “we can’t talk about security in the area without a Palestinian state. Resolving Israeli-Palestinian conflict is at the core of a security and economic progress in the Middle East.