Activities

International Board Missions

The International Board of the U.S./Middle East Project regularly undertakes visits and consultations with Middle Eastern and European heads of state and with leaders of their business communities and civil society. Recent missions visited with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, King Abdullah of Jordan, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

The subject of these encounters has been Middle East peacemaking, regional economic development, democracy and reform.

Members of the International Board at a meeting in Washington, D.C. on September 10, 2008.

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A LAST CHANCE FOR A TWO-STATE ISRAEL-PALESTINE AGREEMENT

The U.S./Middle East Project has released recommendations for U.S. Middle East peacemaking submitted to the administration of President Barack Obama by a bipartisan group of ten former senior government officials: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Chuck Hagel, Lee H. Hamilton, Carla Hills, Nancy Kassebaum-Baker, Thomas R. Pickering, Brent Scowcroft, Theodore C. Sorensen, Paul A. Volcker, and James D. Wolfensohn. All of them are Senior Advisors of the U.S./Middle East Project and members of its International Board, chaired by General Scowcroft.


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