More than five years have passed since the center has been engaged in strengthening relations with Arab colleagues, cooperating with the Organization for Education, Science and Culture of the League of Arab States (ALECSO) and with leading centers of individual Arab countries, with which the Institute of International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences has signed or is planning to sign protocols on scientific cooperation. The most significant initiative of the Arab League is the proposal to hold an international conference on the Middle East settlement in Moscow. At the beginning of 2010, such an event was supposed to be held under the auspices of ALECSO in Damascus, where a delegation of scientists from Russia was to go (in November-December 2010), for which we carefully prepared. The Arab initiative to move the joint event with us to Moscow was apparently initiated at the Arab League field session in Libya in September 2010 on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute over the construction of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territory, where the development of an all-Arab position (to continue or not to continue negotiations with Israel) was postponed for two months. They considered it appropriate to hold another meeting of the Arab League, but this time in Moscow at a higher level, to call on Russia to step up its peacekeeping efforts to find new initiatives in the Arab-Israeli confrontation, which threatens a new war in the Middle East. The tendency to raise the level of humanitarian ties between the Arabs and the Russian Federation was evident in 2010 not only in the actions of the Arab League, but also on the part of individual Arab countries. For example, in February 2010, the head of the Lebanese-Russian House, Professor Suheil Farah, visited the Institute of International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He said that Balamand University, which operates in northern Lebanon, has created a department of "Russia and Orthodoxy", which studies R ... Read more