On October 7, 2015, the
Brookings Institution
, Washington DC, hosted the 6th session of the Russian-American Albright-Talbott-Ivanov Arms Control Initiative, a platform for high-level track-two consultations launched in 2011. The event was attended by RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov, former Secretary of State ...
... established three years ago as a mechanism of informal high-level consultations.
The meeting was attended by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott, as well as former American officials and diplomats. The Russian side was represented by RIAC President Igor Ivanov and its Director General Andrey Kortunov.
The discussions at the fifth meeting focused on possible Russia-U.S. interaction in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, the problem of maintaining the ...
... President Strobe Talbott, as well as former top officials and diplomats, and disarmament and international security experts.
The discussion focused on Ukraine crisis, its potential impact on European security and global politics, and possible areas of Russian-American interaction for speedy normalization of the situation in Ukraine and its environment. The sides have found a considerable coincidence of Moscow's and Washington’s long-term interests in building the new Euro-Atlantic security system....
On October 4, the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., hosted a regular session of the Russian-U.S. bilateral Albright-Talbott-Ivanov Arms Control Initiative operating since 2011 within the cooperation framework between the Russian International Affairs Council and the Brookings Institution.
RIAC was represented by President Igor Ivanov ...