Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Tuesday said he was ready for a dialogue with militias in eastern Ukraine.
July 7 is an anniversary that should be remembered by both Chinese and Japanese.Seventy-seven years ago, at Lugou Bridge, known as Marco Polo Bridge to the Western people, Japanese troops attacked Chinese defenders in the nearby fortress town of Wanping, marking the beginning of the eight-year Anti-Japanese War.
China launched a campaign on Friday to rid the Internet of audio and video materials that promote terrorism and violence.
The president of the United States, Barack Obama, has affirmed Washington's commitment to the establishment of a Palestinian state living in peace alongside the state of Israel, local media reported Thursday.
Negotiators of Myanmar government and the ethnic Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) on Tuesday issued a joint statement after a renewed peace talks in Myitgyina, capital of the Kachin state, agreeing to set up a conflict mediation team as part of the first phase of implementing the joint monitoring mechanism agreed in October 2013.
Myanmar President U Thein Sein met 63 leaders of political parties in Yangon over the weekend, calling on them to cooperate in moving forward the country's peace process to achieve the common goal of stability, peace and unity.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Sunday that the government's direct talks with the Taliban would be held in a day or two.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned on Thursday both Israel's air strikes against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and the rockets fired by Gaza militants to Israel.
Afghan Taliban has denied media report that a delegation of the government-backed High Peace Council met Taliban figures in Dubai to find a negotiated settlement to the longstanding conflict.
Pakistan on Friday angrily reacted to remarks by Afghan security adviser, who described Islamabad as the main "obstacle" to the Afghan government's peace talks with the Taliban.
The South Sudanese government and rebels signed a cease-fire agreement on Thursday here to end weeks of fighting that has killed thousands and displaced half a million civilians.
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said Monday that Israel's rejection of a two-state solution and disregard of legal Palestinian rights undermine U.S. peace efforts.
The United States on Tuesday rejected as "offensive and inappropriate" remarks made by the Israeli defense minister about Secretary of State John Kerry's ongoing peacemaking efforts in the Middle East.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the possibility of a ceasefire in Syria ahead of peace talks in Switzerland later this month.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has assured Afghan President Hamid Karzai that his negotiators will be allowed to access to senior Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
Fourteen members of the Taliban insurgent group surrendered in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar province, said the provincial governor on Wednesday. "A 14-member group of Taliban under Gulan Khan renounced the violence and joined the peace and reintegration process in Sawkai district earlier on Wednesday," governor Shujah ul-Mulk Jalala told Xinhua.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif assured the visiting Afghan High Peace Council President that his government will fully back the peace efforts in Afghanistan, reported local media here Thursday.
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