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'''Leon Saltiel''' is currently (2006) a Senior Fellow at [[UN Watch]], an American Jewish Committee instigated and organized Geneva-based UN monitoring and lobbying group.  Saltiel received a Master of Science Degree in Foreign Policy and Security from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.  Leon Saltiel is originally from Thessalonica, Greece, and he is the nephew of [[David Saltiel]] (President of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki) <ref>[http://www.isfsp.org/katsav-greece.html]</ref>. 

[[Image:Leonsaltiel.jpeg|thumb|Leon Saltiel, 28 Feb 2005]]

==Previous appointments or activities==
*[[Project Interchange]] which "brought a series of high-level officials from Europe to Israel for weeklong educational seminars".  Saltiel was one of the staffers during June 2006. <ref>AJC Weekly News Update 211.</ref>
*[[UN Watch]] representative at the ITU World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis 2005. <ref>[http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/pc3/participants-list-final.pdf]</ref>
*Participant as representative of the [[European Union of Jewish Students]] to the [[OSCE]] Conference in Cordoba, Spain, as part of "the World Jewish Congress’ precedent setting Young Adult Delegation".<ref>[http://eujs.org/documents/cordoba.pdf]</ref>
*Editorial Committee of the Newsletter of the [[Jewish Community of Thessaloniki]] <ref>[http://www.jct.gr/pdf/NEWSLETTER%203.PDF El Avenir] page 20</ref>
*Project Co-ordinator, [[Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe]], Thessaloniki
*[[Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe]] (CDRSEE)  NB: at least the internet forum of this organization "... is sponsored by the US Government via [[USAID]]." <ref>[http://www.uj.edu.pl/pipermail/info/2003/000091.html]</ref>
*Intern at the [[Western Policy Center]] during the spring 2001 semester.
*Organized a forum on the Middle East at the [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]] (WINEP), April 2000 <ref>[http://washingtoninstitute.org/watch/Policywatch/policywatch2000/455.htm]</ref>
*In the [[Jewish Student Newspaper Forum]], Saltiel distributed information on:
*:HASBARA FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM<br>The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in conjunction with the Jerusalem Fellowships of Aish HaTorah, is now accepting applications from Jewish university students in North America for a leadership seminar in Israel... <ref>[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jsn99/message/442?threaded=1]</ref>
*AJC Fellows Program fellowship which involved working as an intern focusing on international issues at [[American Jewish Committee]]'s Washington Office (2000)<ref>[http://www.charitywire.com/charity11/00626.html]</ref>
*Recipient of the Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation's two year fellowship. <ref>[http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=849241&ct=866245]</ref>
*Fulbright fellow, 1999
*Geneva Intern Network &ndash; member
==Activities==

In October 2007, Leon Saltiel presented UN Watch's position on the repression in Burma.<ref>Leon Saltiel, [http://blog.unwatch.org/?m=200710 What This Council Can Do For the People of Burma], UN Watch, 2 October 2007.</ref>

==References, Resources and Contact==
===Publications===
*Leon Saltiel, "Pipelines for Peace: Energy Cooperation Between Greece and Turkey", 21 March 2001, Western Policy Center.
*Leon Saltiel, [http://www.defenddemocracy.org/research_topics/research_topics_show.htm?doc_id=264304&attrib_id=7586 How to Fight Incitement to Genocide], UN Watch, 2 March 2006.
*Nir Boms and Leon Saltiel, [http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24256 The Lebanese Test] FrontPageMagazine.com, 7 September 2006. (Looking at the bright side of the war against Lebanon &ndash; dragging Europe to guarantee Israeli "security".  Never mind the Israeli genocidal policies and actions in the region.)
*Leon Saltiel, [http://www.politico.eu/article/eu-must-speak-out-on-human-rights/ EU must speak out on human rights], EuropeanVoice, 30 Nov 2006. (Noitice that Saltiel is merely identified as a "political analyst in Geneva" &ndash; a proper description would include reference to UN Watch.)

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