Press Conference,
Riad Malki, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Palestinian National Authority

The speech and Q & A will be in English.

Dr. Riad Malki, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Palestinian National Authority, will address the club on the current situation in his land. Malki, who is accompanying President Mahmoud Abbas to Japan, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, in addition to Minister of Information and Official Spokesman of the Government, from September 2007 to June 2009. He was reappointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in May 2009.

A civil engineer and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Malki was a professor at Birzeit University, Ramallah for 15 years. In 1991 he founded Panorama (Palestinian Center for the Dissemination of Democracy and Community Development) and was its representative until 2007.

Riad Malki, Foreign Minister, the Palestinian National Authority