PANEL IV CONTACTS IN 14:00 - 16:30 Protecting journalists covering conflict INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SEMINAR MODERATOR: Ms. Nanette Braun, Chief, Mikhail Seliankin Communications Campaigns Service, UN Department Tel: + 1 917 287 3301 ON PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST of Public Information Email: [email protected] Mr. Wessam Hammad, News Producer, AlJazeera Yazen Al-Saghiri Ms. Ma’aly Hazzaz, Programme Specialist in Email : [email protected] 5-6 September 2018 Communication, UNESCO Press Center, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mr. Sherif Mansour, Program Coordinator, Middle East Shymaa El-Ansary Moscow, Russian Federation and North Africa, Committee to Protect Journalists Email: [email protected] Mr. Gil Somekh, Videographer, CGTN Ms. Sherine Tadros, Head of the New York (UN) Office, Amnesty International UNIC MOSCOW Ms. Maria Zakharova, Director of the Information and Press Vladimir Pavinsky Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation Tel: +7 903 712 6768 Email: [email protected] RESOURCE PERSONS Maria Melnikova Mr. Alaa Daraghme, Freelance Video Journalist Tel: +7 910 415 2998 Ms. Stephanie Freid, Correspondent, CGTN Email: [email protected]

14:00 - 15:00 Initial statements and panel discussion Irina Gadzhieva 15:00 - 16:30 Question-and-answer session Tel: +7 916 517 5144 Email: [email protected] programme CONCLUDING SESSION For tweeting during the seminar, please use: 16:30 - 17:00 Closing statements #UNMediaSeminar Ms. Alison Smale, Under-Secretary-General for Global For more information on the question of Palestine Communications, United Nations and the United Nations, please visit: Dr. Anatoly Torkunov, Chairman of the United Nations https://unispal.un.org Association of , Rector of Moscow‘s State Institute of International Relations and Member of the Collegium of Email: [email protected] Organized by the United Nations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Public Information in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and with the support of the United Nations Association of Russia and the Russian Peace Foundation WEDNESDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER

OPENING SESSION 09:00 - 10:00 Registration Dr. Yair Hirschfeld, Director for the Centre for Middle 14:30 - 15:30 Initial statements and panel discussion 10:00 - 10:45 Opening session East Studies at Galilee International Management 15:30 - 17:30 Question-and-answer session Institute and Negotiator during the Oslo Peace Process OPENING STATEMENTS RECEPTION H.E. Dr. Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the Ms. Alison Smale, Under-Secretary-General for Global 18:00 - 20:00 Reception State of Palestine to the United Nations Communications, United Nations Hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Dr. Vitaly Naumkin, Director of the Institute of Oriental H.E. Mr. Sergey Vershinin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Federation and the United Nations Association of Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Senior Advisor Affairs of the Russian Federation Russia (by invitation only) to the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Syria H.E. Mr. Cheikh Niang, Permanent Representative of Venue: MFA Reception Hall [Spiridonovka St.] Dr. Ilan Pappé, Professor of History and Director of the Senegal to the United Nations and Chairman of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, Exeter University Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 11:00 - 12:00 Initial statements and panel discussion 12:00 - 13:00 Question-and-answer session Ms. Yelena Sutormina, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the International Public Fund “Russian Peace 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch THURSDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER Foundation” [message from the Chairman] MESSAGES PANEL II PANEL III H.E. Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the 14:30 - 17:00 The war of words?: 9:30 – 12:00 70 years after the Nakba: United Nations Covering the Israel-Palestine conflict Telling Palestine refugees’ story H.E. Mr. Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the MODERATOR: Mr. Aidar Aganin, Representative, MODERATOR: Mr. Chris Gunness, Spokesperson and Russian Federation Russian Representative Office in Ramallah and former Director of Advocacy and Strategic Communications, UNRWA Editor-in-Chief RT Arabic Mr. Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the Board of the Mr. Khalid Al-Roushd, Author and Presenter, RT Arabic International Public Fund “Russian Peace Foundation” and Mr. Walid Batrawi, Media and Communications Expert Mr. Omar Baddar, Journalist and Deputy Director of Chairman of the State Duma‘s Committee on International Ms. Liat Collins, Editor, The International Jerusalem Post the Arab American Institute Affairs Dr. Yonatan Mendel, Director, Center for Jewish-Arab Ms. Abby Sewell, Staff Reporter,The Daily Star 10:45 - 11:00 Break Relations, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Ms. Allison Kaplan Sommer, Journalist, Haaretz Ms. Nour Odeh, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, PANEL I Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Associate Professor and Connect Strategic Communications Consultancy Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in 11:00 - 13:00 25 years after the Oslo Accords: Dr. Elena Suponina, Head of and Middle East Are we any closer to peace? Modern Arab History, University of Houston Center, and Advisor to the Director, Russian Institute MODERATOR: Ms. Alison Smale, Under-Secretary- for Strategic Studies 09:30 - 10:30 Initial statements and panel discussion General for Global Communications, United Nations Ms. Bel Trew, Middle East and North Africa 10:30 - 12:00 Question-and-answer session Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Member of the PLO Executive Committee correspondent, The Independent 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch