[ad_1] The Chinese government has removed Qin Gang from the post of foreign minister and replaced him with his predecessor, Wang Yi, according to Chinese state media. “China’s top legislature voted to appoint Wang Yi as foreign minister as it convened a session on Tuesday,” state media reported. “Qin Gang was removed from the post of … Read more
[ad_1] French President Emmanuel Macron would be an inappropriate guest at the BRICS summit, an internatioanl news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Thursday, criticizing countries whose policies Russia considers hostile. The BRICS group of emerging economies, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is due to hold a summit in … Read more
[ad_1] Taliban’s interim foreign minister gets UN clearance to travel for meeting with counterparts in Pakistan. Pakistan’s UN mission requested an exemption for Muttaqi to travel between May 6 and 9 “for a meeting with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China”. A United Nations Security Council committee has agreed to allow the Taliban’s interim foreign … Read more
[ad_1] Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian met in Beijing for the first time to discuss the next steps of their diplomatic rapprochement. In a video shared on the social networking website Twitter, Prince Faisal and Amirabdollahian are seen greeting each other before sitting down together. … Read more