ISLAMABAD The Foreign Office on Thursday summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner Mr. JP Singh and strongly condemned the unprovoked ceasefire violations by Indian...
SEOUL: A senior United Nations official arrived in North Korea on Tuesday for a rare visit aimed at defusing soaring tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear...
BONN: Negotiations to bolster the climate-saving Paris Agreement, crafted over two decades, closed in Bonn on Saturday, deflated but not derailed by Donald Trump's...
GENEVA: The appointment of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador of the World Health Organization (WHO) has been denounced by human rights...
KUALA LAMPUR: Malaysia summoned the North Korean ambassador on Monday for a dressing-down over Pyongyang's attack on its investigation into the assassination of leader Kim...
RAMALLAH: The Palestinians condemned as "blatant discrimination" Washington's decision to block the appointment of their former prime minister Salam Fayyad as UN peace envoy...
GENEVA: The United Nations on Thursday dismissed rumours that its special envoy for the Syrian conflict, Staffan de Mistura, had resigned.
"Media reports that Special Envoy...
ISLAMABAD: Iran's Ambassador to Pakistan, Mehdi Hunardoost Friday said that the Chabahar port is not a rival to Pakistan's Gwadar port, ARY News reported.
GENEVA: The start of a new round of peace talks on the Syrian war has been pushed back by two days so that U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura can travel to Damascus and Tehran to sound out their position on a political transition, the envoy said on Thursday.
GENEVA: North Korea will pursue its nuclear and ballistic missile program in defiance of the United States and its allies, a top Pyongyang envoy told Reuters on Friday, saying there is now a state of "semi-war" on the divided peninsula.
BEIRUT/AMMAN/GENEVA: The Syrian army threatened rebel supply lines into the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday as a U.N. envoy met government representatives to try to advance peace talks rendered almost impossible by the continued fighting.
WASHINGTON: Outgoing US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson will succeed Dan Feldman, who concluded his tenure September 18, as U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP).
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara said a tearful farewell to international cricket Monday and was immediately offered the post of the island's top envoy in Britain, where he plays county cricket.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan summoned the Indian ambassador Thursday after a "spy drone" was shot down in disputed Kashmir, as officials said five people were killed in cross-border shelling between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
VIENNA: Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear agency declined on Thursday to commit to nuclear transparency measures that were part of a preliminary deal Tehran and world powers reached in April, deflecting U.S. demands to implement such provisions.
CAIRO: Saudi-led air strikes pounded the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday and the new United Nations envoy to the country arrived there hours before a five-day ceasefire after over six weeks of war was set to begin.
NEW YORK: The United States Department of State on Monday named its first-ever special envoy to advocate globally for the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
ISLAMABAD: Advisor to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Monday met the outgoing US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan James F. Dobbins, ARY News reported.