UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is starting...
also meet with professors and students from MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations), as well as with academicians and businessmen.On March 19, Ban will attend a meeting of the Middle East Quartet in Moscow, to also be attended by Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the EU’s chief diplomat Catherine Ashton, Quartet envoy Tony Blair and U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell.
The meeting of the Quartet of international mediators in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks is made up of Russia, the UN, the United States and the European Union.
The meeting will take place at a crucially important moment for the Middle East, with the real opportunity to resume indirect Palestinian-Israeli talks following the Arab League’s decision in March and its approval by the Israeli government.
The Quartet is likely to once again condemn the construction of new Jewish settlements on Palestinian territories.