Among people who have agreed to come to ‘Valdai’, there are Wolfgang Schüssel, the Austrian Federal Chancellor, Dominique De Villepin, Mustapha Tlili, Research Scholar at New York University and Founder and Director of NYU Center for Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West., Timothy Colton and many others.
Fyodor Lukyanov, director of the Foundation for Research Development and Support of the International Discussion Club ‘Valdai’, editor-in-chief of the magazine ‘Russia in Global Affairs’, says that “the war and peace theme appeared, of course, not a week ago in connection with events in the Middle East, it appeared somewhere at the beginning of the year. Of course, we did not expect that it would be relevant to that extent up to the time of the great ‘Valdai’, but even before the recent developments, it was obvious that the problem of war and peace as the central issue of diplomacy and international relations in general was back full scale.”
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