As a Foreign Office diplomat, Crispin Tickell helped Britain join the European Union in 1973. Now 86, he reflects on missed opportunities and his deep disappointment at the Brexit vote.
"I think it's a disaster. I think it's a failure of foreign policy," he told AFP in his book-filled, top-floor flat overlooking London's Regent's Canal.
"British foreign policy has beenRead more
Top US diplomat and China scholar Richard Solomon, who played a leading role in the opening of relations with Beijing under Richard Nixon in the 1970s, has died at the age of 79, the State Department said on Wednesday.
A political scientist who died on Monday at his home outside Washington, DC, Solomon served on the National Security Council underRead more
The United States' top diplomat on Thursday reassured key Asian allies that Washington stands with them in the face of the accelerating missile threat from North Korea.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson began his first Asian tour in Tokyo and held talks with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida before a scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
President Donald Trump hadRead more
The Assistant of the President of the Republic, Engineer, Ibrahim Mahmoud Hammed met, Tuesday, the Envoy of the French Foreign Ministry .
The meeting discussed spheres of joint cooperation and issues of common interest .
The French diplomat has expressed his country's keenness to develop its relations with Sudan and support peace and stability in the country .
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Malaysian police said Wednesday they identified two additional North Koreans, including a diplomat, as being linked to the murder of North's leader Kim Jong-un's half brother.
Malaysian police said they identified a North Korean embassy official and an airline employee in connection to the ongoing investigation without revealing details. The diplomat holds the rank of second secretary of the North'sRead more
A North Korean diplomat stationed in the United Nations has said that Pyongyang and Washington are in a very dangerous situation following the shutdown of their communication channel in New York, Yonhap quoted a US-based media report as saying Tuesday.
The diplomat made the remark in a telephone conversation with Voice of America (VOA), saying, "Now the situation is veryRead more
Sierra Leone's foreign minister said Monday no ransom was paid in the release of a diplomat who was abducted and held captive for five days in Nigeria, Fox News reported.
Sierra Leone's deputy high commissioner to Nigeria Maj. Gen. Alfred Nelson Williams was abducted June 30 while traveling to a military parade in the northwest. At the time, Nigerian workersRead more
The Algerian top diplomat will kick off on Monday a two-day working visit in the Malian capital Bamako to boost peace in Northern Mali, Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
Ramtane Lamamra, Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, will co-chair with his Malian counterpart Abdoulaye Diop the 11th bilateral strategic committee for Northern Mali, it said.
The meeting coincides withRead more
Speaking in a joint statement on behalf of 136 countries, Chinese diplomat Ma Zhaoxu concerned on Monday the rise in double standards and politicization of the Human Rights Council (HRC), whose 32nd session kicked off on Monday.
Compounded by public pressure, naming and shaming and the use of the council to meddle in the internal affairs of sovereign states, MaRead more
A former Saudi diplomat considered Pakistan’s 1998 detonation of nuclear weapon as milestone in the country’s defense strategy, and hoped that the nuclear device remains a deterrent strategy “to avoid catastrophe in the region.”
Dr. Ali Al-Ghamdi was speaking at a symposium, “Nuclear Technology, Our Need and Obligation” to mark the 18th anniversary of Pakistan’s detonation of nuclear device someRead more