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Dr. Essam El-Erian, Vice President, Freedom and Justice Party and  Muslim Brotherhood (left), and Gen. Sameh Seif Elyazal (right)

NEW Cairo, 30-31 October 2011. Pugwash and Al-Ahram Center convene a groundbreaking workshop on “Democratic Developments and Regional Security in the Middle East” involving presidential candidates and key political, military and legal experts from all sides.



Former Deputy Director General of the IAEA, Dr Olli Heinonen, Harvard; Dr. Barbara Zanchetta, Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and Dr. Seyed Rasoul Mousavi, Ambassador of Iranian Republic to Finland. Huhtaniemi.

NEW Helsinki, 18 November 2011. Pugwash Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino and Senior Program Coordinator Sandy Butcher participate in symposium on “First steps of a Nuclear Dialogue in the Middle East”, organized by Finnish Pugwash Committee, in cooperation with Eric Castrèn Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Peace Union of Finland and Finnish Peace Committee. UN Under-Secretary Amb. Sergio Duarte was a special guest.


NEW Cairo Consultations, 13-14 August 2011. Pugwash Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino held a series of Representatives of the Islamic Movements (Harakat Islamiya)



Amb. J. Issacharoff, Prof. G. Golan-Gild, Prof. D. Menashri

Pugwash Workshop Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East, 20-21 May 2011, Tel Aviv, Israel



Participants in May 2011 Islamabad meetings

Visit of Indian Parliamentarians, Islamabad, 26-27 May 2011


Composite Report of the Pugwash India-Pakistan Independent Commission Dubai Meeting and Delhi Consultations, Dubai 26-27 February 2011 and Delhi 1-2 March 2011



NEW Pugwash sends best wishes to Amb. Sherry Rehman the new ambassador of Pakistan to the USA, seen here (2nd from right) in a March 2011 meeting in Delhi with Nasim Zehra (Dunya TV), Lt. Gen. (ret.) Talat Masood, Indian Vice President Hon. Hamid Ansari

NEW "COMMENT ON IRAN-WEST RELATIONS,"
19 December 2011, by Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary General and Jayantha Dhanapala, President


NEW Finnish Under Secretary of State Amb. Jaakko Laajava, facilitator for the 2012 Middle East WMD Free Zone Conference, and his team received Pugwash Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino and Senior Program Coordinator Sandra Butcher, 18 November 2011. Butcher met 8 November in London with Finnish Foreign Secretary Erkki Tuomioja and Finnish Ambassador to the UK Pekka Huhtaniemi. Cotta-Ramusino and Butcher participate in other WMD Free Zone meetings in Brussels, Como, London.

  • Pugwash Memo - Toward a Conference on a NW or WMD Free Zone in the Middle East, some points for consideration, 26 September 2011

Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Akbar Salehi receives Pugwash Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino and Pugwash Council Member Amb. Sergey Batsanov, Tehran, June 2011.



The Egyptian Foreign Minister Dr. Nabil Al-Araby received Pugwash Secretary General Paolo Cotta-Ramusino on 24 March 2011. They discussed the situation in the Middle East and steps toward elimination of WMD in the region.  More information is available here.



Russian Deputy Foreign Minister S. Ryabkov, Pugwash President J. Dhanapala, US Under Secretary E. Tauscher

NEW The 59th Pugwash Conference, European Contributions to Nuclear Disarmament & Conflict Resolution, took place at the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, 1-4 July 2011. 350 people from 43 countries participated, including high level panels on topics ranging from the Middle East to South Asia to Fukushima.

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