Shimon Peres is Israel’s oldest politician and statesman. Apart from his stint as President of the country, Mr Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and was the country’s Foreign Minister three times. He also led various government ministries at different times. Shimon Peres won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.

 

Following his retirement as President in July 2014, Mr Peres has mostly focused on the activities of the Peres Center for Peace, a non-for-profit, non-governmental, non-political organization he founded in 1996 to promote peacebuilding between Israel and its neighbors (particularly between Israelis and Palestinians) as well as between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel. Shimon Peres told Mikhail Gorbachev about the activities of his Center and his future plans. Promoting peaceful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will continue to be one of his top priorities. He will also focus on environmental activities and support for new technology research. Shimon Peres presented Mikhail Gorbachev with his most recent book, Ben Gurion: A Political Life, and congratulated him on the birth of his great-grandson.

 

Mikhail Gorbachev outlined the activities of the Gorbachev Foundation and presented his most recently published book, After the Kremlin.

 

The schedule of Shimon Peres’ visit to Moscow includes a meeting with the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 

Foto by V.Polyakov/The Gorbachev Foundation

 

The Gorbachev Foundation’s International and Media Relations