Antalya Diplomacy Forum

The Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) is a high-level meeting where ideas and views on diplomacy, policy and business are exchanged by policy makers, diplomats and academics in Antalya, Turkey.[1]

Antalya Diplomacy Forum
Formation2021
TypePanel forum
PurposeDiplomacy
Location
Region served
Worldwide
Official language
English
Websiteantalyadf.org

The meeting brings together some 2,000 participants – among which are diplomats, business leaders, political leaders and economists – for up to three days to discuss global issues across several sessions.[2]

About

Antalya Diplomacy Forum is a high-level gathering of professionals who deal with diplomacy such as political leaders, diplomats, opinion makers or academics. It presents an platform for regional and global actors from the spheres of diplomacy, policy, and business to exchange ideas and address international challenges.

Diplomacy remains the core method of communication among leaders and states. There is a whole set of other structural and systemic changes in the international environment that the diplomacy profession should respond to.

With the participation of more than 2000 guests comprising Heads of State, Heads of Government, Ministers of Foreign Affairs and high-level representatives of the International Organizations, the first Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) provided and fruitful communications on global and regional issues among the representatives of politics, science, media and business. ADF has become the first conference held with physical participation and remarkable attendance in post- pandemic period and was noted as an important event in the field of foreign policy and diplomacy.[3]

Peace Talks, Antalya Diplomacy Forum (10 March)

Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Dmytro Kuleba met for talks in Antalya, Turkey with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu as mediator in the first high-level contact between the two sides since the beginning of the invasion.[4] Ukraine had attempted to negotiate a 24-hour ceasefire to provide aid and evacuation to civilians, especially in Mariupol.[5] After two hours of talks, no agreement was reached.[6] Airstrikes on the port city continued.[7]

Editions

2021
2021 panel with EU High Representative Borrell, OECD Secretary General Cormann and presidents from Haiti, Kosovo, Kenya and Somalia

The meeting was originally planned to be held on March 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]

A total of 11 heads of state and government, 45 foreign ministers, and attendance at ministerial level were part of the forum, Additionally, the event was attended by about 60 representatives of international organisations and high-level personalities, guests from the business and academic world, and 256 young people in total, including undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students from more than 50 universities.

Two leaders' sessions, 15 panels, 25 side events, including ADF Talks, and two youth forums were organised.

2022
2022 panel with foreign ministers of Austria, Iraq and Lebanon

The 2022 edition of the forum took place on March 11–13, under the overarching theme of “Recoding Diplomacy”. A total of 17 heads of state and government, 80 foreign ministers and 39 representatives of international organisations.[9]

The panels that took place were named as followed:

Partnerships

See also

References
  1. "ADF – Antalya Diplomasi Forumu". Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  2. "Oman Participates in first Antalya Diplomacy Forum". Archived from the original on 2021-06-21.
  3. "Antalya Diplomacy Forum". www.aa.com.tr. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  4. "'No progress' as top Russia, Ukraine diplomats talk in Turkey". Al Jazeera. 2022-03-10. Archived from the original on 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  5. "Ukraine war: No progress on ceasefire after Kyiv-Moscow talks". BBC News. 2022-03-10. Archived from the original on 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  6. Ellyatt, Holly (2022-03-10). "Russia-Ukraine talks fail with no progress on cease-fire, safe passage for civilians". CNBC. Archived from the original on 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  7. Brown, Lee (2022-03-10). "Ukraine-Russia peace talks fail to make progress as airstrikes continue on Mariupol". New York Post. ISSN 1090-3321. Archived from the original on 2022-03-13. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  8. "The Postponement of Antalya Diplomacy Forum". wt.iletisim.gov.tr. Directorate of Communications. 9 March 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
  9. Küçüker Sirene, Öznur (13 March 2022). "L'assaut diplomatique de la Turquie | TRT Français". www.trt.net.tr (in French). Retrieved 18 March 2022.
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