In episode 8 of In The Zone, Anahita Parsa and Paul Ingram interview our very own Emad Kiyaei. In this interview, Emad talks about the Iran Nuclear Deal, the JCPOA, what it is, what’s happening in Iranian politics, what the Europeans are doing, what the US should be doing and what the lessons for multilateral diplomacy are.
Continue reading “In The Zone – Episode 8 – Emad Kiyaei”The JCPOA and the WMD-Free Zone
As the Iran nuclear deal (the JCPOA as it is often referred to) continued to hog the spotlight of all international reporting on the Middle East, the Middle East Treaty Organization, together with our partners, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), organised a rather unique webinar bringing together the voices from important constituencies in the USA, namely Jewish Americans, Arab Americans and Iranian Americans to talk about the importance of the USA and Iran returning to full compliance with the JCPOA, in the context of a need to develop regional security within a WMD-free zone.
Continue reading “The JCPOA and the WMD-Free Zone”In The Zone – Episode 7 – The JCPOA and the other parties
In this special episode of In The Zone we have taken some of the best bits from our recent webinar, organized in collaboration with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, featuring four representative perspectives on the Iranian nuclear deal and its relationship with the proposal to set up a WMD-Free Zone across the Middle East.
Continue reading “In The Zone – Episode 7 – The JCPOA and the other parties”What role for the other parties to the JCPOA?
In recent months, the focus on the Iran Nuclear Deal (the JCPOA) has been on the United States (who unilaterally withdrew from the agreement under the Trump presidency) and on Iran (who subsequently started to stop compliance with some of the agreement’s terms).
Continue reading “What role for the other parties to the JCPOA?”CND conference – Working for Peace in the Middle East
METO is delighted to confirm our participation in the upcoming online CND conference titled Working for Peace in the Middle East on 22nd May, 2021. Directors Sharon Dolev and Emad Kiyaei will speak on the panel “Voices from the Middle East: can the region be nuclear-free?” from 1pm to 2:10pm.
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Invitation to a webinar
Date: Tuesday, 6th April
Time: 16:00 Beijing, 12:30 Tehran, 11:00 Jerusalem, Moscow 10:00 Berlin, Cairo, 9:00 London
In The Zone – Episode 6 – Wael Al Assad
In episode 6 of In The Zone, Sharon Dolev and Paul Ingram interview Wael Al Assad, currently a senior adviser to the Qatari National Committee for the prohibition of weapons and a senior fellow on the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone project. In this interview, Wael talks about the benefits of the WMDFZ to all countries of the region, the need for all sides (Arab, Israelis and Iranians) to drop the rhetoric and to start to negotiate in good faith, the strategy used by METO to move things forward by the development of a draft treaty text, and he calls on the major external powers with interests in the region to allow the states to negotiate without interference.
Continue reading “In The Zone – Episode 6 – Wael Al Assad”METO statement marking International Women’s Day, 2021
This International Women’s Day, the Middle East Treaty Organisation (METO) celebrates the women central to global peacebuilding and disarmament.
METO is proud to be led by a woman and, as a team, is 50% composed of women of colour who embody a diverse range of individuals contributing to the effort to research into, promote and establish a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East.
Continue reading “METO statement marking International Women’s Day, 2021”In The Zone – Episode 5 – Renata Dwan
In the fifth episode of In The Zone, published on March 8th 2021 to coincide with International Women’s Day, Anahita Parsa and Paul Ingram interview Renata Dwan, former head of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and current Senior Executive Officer of Chatham House in the UK. In this interview, Renata talks about the background to the UNIDIR Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone Project, the importance of all sides in the region reflecting on their own situation and the situations that others find themselves in as a result of conflict, and the increasingly important topic of the intersection of gender, and diversity of representation in general, with disarmament.
Continue reading “In The Zone – Episode 5 – Renata Dwan”METO marks TPNW entry into force on social media
As part of our busy start to the new year, METO has launched its new social media campaign to kick off 2021.
Our new Instagram page was launched, joining our existing Twitter and Facebook pages, with an impressive steady increase in followers as attention was directed to our social media presence.
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