Peace Negotiations
Thursday, December 5, 2013 - 07:54
State Department officials described the security briefing as an “ongoing process” and not a finished product on which the United States was demanding a yes-or-no vote from the Israeli side.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 13:40
Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.) Russell D. Feingold will travel to Kigali and Paris to meet with government representatives and Great Lakes heads of state this week.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 07:51
This move is part of the economic plan proposed by the US Secretary of State John Kerry to improve the investment climate in the Palestinian territories.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 07:44
President Joseph Kabila and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni agree Kampala dialogue should conclude, but give no hint of deal.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 07:38
"If anyone thinks we are going to Geneva 2 to hand the keys to Damascus over [to the opposition], then he might as well not go," Omran al-Zohbi, the information minister said on Wednesday.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 06:36
He also noted that “the talks mainly focus not on future legal relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan but between Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh”.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 06:30
The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan are due to discuss the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh in Kyiv on December 4.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 05:44
Chairman Royce challenged Baku's record of threats and aggression - including, notably, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's pardon of Ramil Safarov, the convicted, unrepentant axe-murderer of an Armenian officer at a NATO peace training program in Hungary.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 12:13
Congo's president wants talks with rebels in the country's east concluded as soon as possible, Ugandan and Congolese statements said, although there was no sign of a breakthrough on the wording of an accord that scuppered a signing last month.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013 - 11:47
A new fleet of drones is set to make its first flight over the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo this week, an area where one rebel group, the M23, was recently defeated, but where many others still operate.