MOSCOW, February 9. /TASS/. More than 50 Russian and foreign experts and politicians from 16 countries will discuss new trends in the region at the XV Middle East Conference of the Valdai International Discussion Club, which will be held on February 9-10 in Moscow.
The topic of this year's discussion is "Continuity and Innovation: The Middle East against the Background of a Broken World Order."
The Middle East Valdai is one of the club's largest annual international events: this year, experts from Algeria, Great Britain, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Tunisia, India, China, Greece, Israel and Turkey will participate. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will traditionally be the guest of honor.
The two-day conference will include an opening, six thematic sessions and a meeting of the participants with Lavrov, which will be closed to the press like some other sessions.
Specially for the conference, together with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a new Valdai report was prepared "In Mid-Sentence: The Middle East at the Beginning of the Second Quarter of the XXI Century," which follows the key trends in international relations in the region. According to the report, events in the Middle East developed so rapidly at the beginning of 2026 that it is only possible to consider some of the already emerging key trends in rebalancing international relations in the region, cautiously suggesting possible further lines of change.
