Officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States and China met in Islamabad on Monday to work out a roadmap for the revival of the stalled peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi will address ethnic armed groups Tuesday, organisers of a fresh round of peace talks said, after she outlined peace as a priority for her government when it takes power in March.
Representatives of South Korea, China, the United States and Japan in six-party talks to dismantle the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear program will meet this week to discuss the DPRK's fourth nuclear test, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday.
China called on all parties to exercise restraint following the latest moves by the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) in retaliation for Pyongyang's nuclear test.
China on Thursday confirmed contact with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Embassy in Beijing after the country's latest nuclear test conducted Wednesday.
Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Tuesday regional tensions would not affect talks aimed at ending Syria's war, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, in an apparent reference to Riyadh's severing of ties with Iran.
"The talks may be held in Islamabad on January 15. Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar will go there to represent this country," the sources said.
Russia intends to continue trade talks with the European Union and Ukraine in spite of the failure of the latest trilateral ministerial meeting in Brussels, Belgium, Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.
Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Sunday announced the end of the latest peace talks on Yemen, saying that the parties agreed on framework for the negotiations and will meet again on Jan. 14, 2016 for a new round of talks.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday called for representative, balanced and inclusive Syria talks while attending the third ministerial-level meeting of the International Support Group for Syria here in New York.
Sri Lanka and Australia have agreed to further strengthen its bilateral relations as senior officials from the two countries met for discussions in capital Colombo this week, the foreign ministry said here on Friday.
South Korea's Unification Ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs said Monday that it is anticipating the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s positive response to its expected dialogue offer, though it has no detailed plan yet for such dialogue proposal.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif alongside Afghan president Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday once again described Afghanistan's enemy as Pakistan's enemy and vowed to facilitate the resumption of the stalled peace talks between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban outfit.
The fresh diplomatic engagement between New Delhi and Islamabad is being viewed by analysts as a thaw in bilateral relations of the two nuclear neighbors.
Negotiators from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan met on Monday to review achievements in their talks since 2008.
An unprecedented number of world leaders joined together Monday to give a boost to difficult, years-long efforts to fight climate change collectively.
Optimism has mounted for the upcoming Paris climate change conference, with "a powerful, ambitious and legally binding deal" expected to be reached to deal with climate change after 2020.
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