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Yuri Pilipson, the director of the Ministry’s Fourth European Department, told RIA Novosti on Thursday that recent NATO manoeuvres risked creating tensions. “It is quite obvious that this kind of ‘training’ provokes, rather than prevents, conflict situations,” he said. The diplomat added that Russia will do whatever it takes to …

South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun summoned on Saturday the head of the Japanese diplomatic mission to Seoul, Ambassador Koichi Aiboshi, to formally protest what one of his deputies said to a local television station. The cable TV broadcaster, JTBC, said on Friday that a senior Japanese diplomat made …

Speaking as part of an interview with a news program broadcast on YouTube on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova explained that the Russian government had issued a protest to Washington over the incident, which took place last spring. The Foreign Ministry had announced the day before that the authorities …

“A more stable, predictable relationship with them [Russia], I think, would be good for us [the US], good for them, and I’d even argue good for the world,” Blinken told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sunday following his recent talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The secretary of state …

Having served as France’s ambassador to the US, Israel, and the United Nations before his retirement in 2019, Araud likely knows a thing or two about reading the room. However, a quip he made on Twitter on Saturday went down like a lead balloon. “The difference between a lady and …

Until recently, Yang Jiechi, a 70-year-old Chinese career diplomat, had a reputation, at least among his foreign peers, of being a somewhat mild-mannered and colorless bureaucrat.  Sixteen minutes at a meeting with his American counterparts in Alaska last month changed all that. That was the length of time Yang spent …

An Antwerp court sentenced Assadolah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat formerly based in Vienna, Austria to the maximum 20 years behind bars on Thursday. It is the first time an Iranian official has been put on trial and sentenced by an EU member state for terrorism offenses. Reporters were not allowed …

The observation, which the Obama-era diplomat shared with his Twitter followers on Friday, provoked an avalanche of critical responses. McFaul later even said he was surprised that his “analytical statement” that simply rehashed a theory that democracies generally get on together well was taken as a policy suggestion to Tehran. …

Calling the tweet “unfactual,” Ardern told reporters on Tuesday that her administration had contacted Beijing “directly” to raise objections over the controversial image, shared on Sunday by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijan. “There is an exchange that’s happening between Australia and China, it will of course tap into spaces …

The incident occurred on the plane from Irkutsk-Moscow. The victim received immediate and necessary assistance from the Polish Consulate in Moscow, and the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Poland. The incident was reported to the police. The diplomat passed the necessary medical examination and returned to Poland. The Director of …