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February 2019 Warsaw Conference
The February 2019 Warsaw Conference, commonly known as the US-led Middle East conference in Warsaw, took place on 13 and 14 February 2019 in Warsaw, capital of Poland. The conference was hosted by Poland and the United States. According to the joint official announcement of the meeting, the issues of the event were: "terrorism and extremism, missile development and proliferation, maritime trade and security, and threats posed by proxy groups across the region". In early February, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had said that the purpose of the conference is to focus on "Iran's influence and terrorism in the region". However, after the European objections to the purpose, the United States was forced to backtrack on planning to build a global coalition against Iran.
The Warsaw Conference became the semi-official ground for the Arab–Israeli alliance against Iran, in light of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict. The coalition emerged in 2017, upon warming ties between Israel and the Gulf States, and received broad media attention in light of the February 2019 Warsaw Conference.
On 12 February, US Secretary of State and Polish Foreign Minister had a press conference, one day before the summit on the "peace and security for the Middle East" officially begins. Pompeo said that more than 60 states are participating in the Warsaw summit.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview while in Warsaw: "We want the Iranian people to have the opportunity to live in a prosperous, peaceful society, and one that is controlled by their desires, their wishes."
The first day of the meetings, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote on Twitter that the meeting with Arab leaders was to reach a "common interest of war with Iran", repeated in a press release. Later the tweet was deleted, and the press release amended to "common interest of combatting Iran".
Iran has protested over the conference, calling it a hostile move.[citation needed] The foreign policy chief of the European Union, Federica Mogherini said that she will not attend the Warsaw meeting, "which has received a cool reception from European countries." Russia's Foreign Ministry also released a statement on 22 January and cited that Russian officials will not attend the conference, which it described as an "anti-Iran platform." Major European powers such as Germany and France, refused to send their top diplomats over fears that the summit was designed mainly to build an alliance against Iran.
British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, agreed to attend the summit but only on the condition that the United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia hold a meeting on the margins about Yemen.
Speaking in Warsaw, the U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called the regime in Iran the "greatest threat to peace and security in the Middle East". Mike Pence, criticized some European countries trying to weaken US sanctions against Iran and said Iran is after "another holocaust".
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February 2019 Warsaw Conference
The February 2019 Warsaw Conference, commonly known as the US-led Middle East conference in Warsaw, took place on 13 and 14 February 2019 in Warsaw, capital of Poland. The conference was hosted by Poland and the United States. According to the joint official announcement of the meeting, the issues of the event were: "terrorism and extremism, missile development and proliferation, maritime trade and security, and threats posed by proxy groups across the region". In early February, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had said that the purpose of the conference is to focus on "Iran's influence and terrorism in the region". However, after the European objections to the purpose, the United States was forced to backtrack on planning to build a global coalition against Iran.
The Warsaw Conference became the semi-official ground for the Arab–Israeli alliance against Iran, in light of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict. The coalition emerged in 2017, upon warming ties between Israel and the Gulf States, and received broad media attention in light of the February 2019 Warsaw Conference.
On 12 February, US Secretary of State and Polish Foreign Minister had a press conference, one day before the summit on the "peace and security for the Middle East" officially begins. Pompeo said that more than 60 states are participating in the Warsaw summit.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview while in Warsaw: "We want the Iranian people to have the opportunity to live in a prosperous, peaceful society, and one that is controlled by their desires, their wishes."
The first day of the meetings, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote on Twitter that the meeting with Arab leaders was to reach a "common interest of war with Iran", repeated in a press release. Later the tweet was deleted, and the press release amended to "common interest of combatting Iran".
Iran has protested over the conference, calling it a hostile move.[citation needed] The foreign policy chief of the European Union, Federica Mogherini said that she will not attend the Warsaw meeting, "which has received a cool reception from European countries." Russia's Foreign Ministry also released a statement on 22 January and cited that Russian officials will not attend the conference, which it described as an "anti-Iran platform." Major European powers such as Germany and France, refused to send their top diplomats over fears that the summit was designed mainly to build an alliance against Iran.
British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, agreed to attend the summit but only on the condition that the United Kingdom, United States, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia hold a meeting on the margins about Yemen.
Speaking in Warsaw, the U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called the regime in Iran the "greatest threat to peace and security in the Middle East". Mike Pence, criticized some European countries trying to weaken US sanctions against Iran and said Iran is after "another holocaust".