A middle eastern union?

TOLEDO, SPAIN - This autumn, the Toledo International Centre for Peace convened a meeting devoted to water cooperation in the Middle East.

One conclusion that emerged was that any effective response to the unequal distribution of natural resources in the region must be regional.

With this idea in mind, Munther Haddadin, a former Jordanian minister of water resources, proposed for the Middle East a "Water and Energy Union," a long-term mechanism to integrate a fragmented region.

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