On July 7 2014, the Toledo International Centre for Peace (CITpax) convened a group of policy experts to explore ideas to help resolve current conflicts in the region and explore new political and security architectures in the Middle East. The meeting, chaired by Javier Solana, President of ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics, and Thomas Pickering, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs at the State Department (USA), counted with the participation of representatives from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in order to advice them and contribute ideas to the MFA in the light of the upcoming Spanish Presidency of Security Council in October 2015.