Kazakhstan is fully ready to hold talks on Syria in its capital Astana on Jan. 23, Russia's RIA news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov.
The Philippine government is ready to engage the leftist National Democratic Front (NDF) in discussing the major substantive agenda when the next round of formal talks resume later this week in Italy, a senior government official said Monday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday said Israel's building of settlements on occupied land was jeopardizing Middle East peace, voicing unusually frank frustration with America's longtime ally weeks before he is due to leave office.
The Afghan government like yesteryear has been faced with multiple challenges in 2016 above all the increasing security incidents and futile efforts to find negotiated settlement to the country's lingering crisis.
France will postpone a proposed Middle East peace conference in Paris to January next year, Voice of Palestine radio reported on Wednesday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refusing to participate and U.S. attendance in doubt.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that he hopes for progress in peace treaty talks with Russia but that the issue can't be settled in one meeting.
Colombia's Congress unanimously approved a peace deal with FARC guerrillas to end more than a half-century of civil war, lawmakers said.
Nothing is more important than peace and stability, said Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, asserting that her country would like to show the world that it is possible to achieve this.
Palestine on Tuesday lamented "in specific" the UN Security Council's failure to make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, saying that "continued international appeasement and inaction are indefensible."
The Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) signed on Saturday a new peace agreement after days of negotiations in Havana, a possible lasting deal to end over 50 years of armed conflicts in the country.
Peace talks between Colombia's government and the country's second largest guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), will begin on Nov.3 in Quito, Ecuador, it was announced on Monday.
A Japanese foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday that Tokyo was not discussing with Moscow the joint administration of disputed islands held by Russia in the hope of unblocking an issue that has bedevilled their relations for 70 years.
For the last four years, a stout, bearded Colombian man has been in the spotlight as the head of one of the last guerrilla movements in Latin America, who is Rodrigo Londono, the top leader of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said on Friday that the 2016 Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at a critical moment, which provides hope and encouragement to the Colombian people.
Santos has been announced as this year’s laureate for his efforts to bring peace to the country in the decades-long civil war with FARC guerillas.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said that a ceasefire with FARC rebels will end on October 31, as both sides scramble to find a solution to the half-century conflict after voters rejected a peace deal.
Colombia's former president and current senator Alvaro Uribe has shown himself to still be a popular leader capable of gathering large-scale support for his arguments against a peace agreement with the rebels.
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