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UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — A UN Security Council committee has agreed to lift a travel ban on North Korean officials heading to Singapore for the planned summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un next month, diplomats said. Singapore last week asked the sanctions committee to grant an exemption to the North Korean delegation attending the June 12 summit and taking part in preparatory meetings, according to the request seen by AFP. […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)–China hopes the historic summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will take place June 12 as planned, its top diplomat said Wednesday. “If you want to solve the moment now is the time, if you want peace now is the time, if you want to make history now is the time,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Wednesday in Washington, alongside his counterpart Mike Pompeo. […]
by Sunghee Hwang Agence France Presse SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Invited foreign journalists gathered in North Korea Wednesday to witness the slated destruction of the reclusive regime’s nuclear test site, a high profile gesture on the road to a summit with the US that Donald Trump now says might not happen. In a surprise announcement Pyongyang said earlier this month that it planned to “completely” destroy the Punggye-ri facility in the country’s northeast, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirmed Sunday that Washington and Beijing have agreed to back off from imposing tariffs on each other, a day after reaching an accord on slashing the American trade deficit with China. “We have made very meaningful progress and we agreed on a framework,” Mnuchin told Fox News Sunday. “So right now we have agreed to put the tariffs on hold while we try to execute […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump sounded a note of caution Wednesday about his much-vaunted summit with Kim Jong Un, saying “we’ll see” after Pyongyang threatened to cancel. Trump said the US government had not received any official word of a change in plans for the June 12 meeting in Singapore. “We haven’t been notified at all. We’ll have to see,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “We haven’t seen anything. […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippines further intensified its ties with Russia with the holding of a bilateral meeting between Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, May 15, in Moscow. Cayetano thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Foreign Minister for valuing better relations with the Philippines. “We thank President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for attaching great importance to our relations and for […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States said Tuesday it was moving ahead with preparations for a much-anticipated summit next month between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, after Pyongyang appeared to cast doubt over the event. “We will continue to plan the meeting,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters, adding that Washington had received “no notification” of a position change by North Korea. “We have not heard anything from that […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Wednesday called into question a much-anticipated and unprecedented summit between its leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump. Pyongyang also cancelled high-level talks due Wednesday with Seoul over the Max Thunder joint military exercises being held between the US and the South, Seoul said. “There is a limit to the amount of good will and chances we can give,” the North’s official news agency KCNA […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Iran’s foreign minister on Tuesday hailed talks with the EU to try to find a way to rescue the Iran nuclear deal after the US pulled out as a “good start”. “I believe it’s a good start. We’re not there, we’re beginning the process,” Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters after meeting his French, British and German counterparts in Brussels. The three European signatories to the landmark 2015 deal are leading international efforts to […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — The Lima Group of countries seeking a peaceful solution to the spiralling crisis in Venezuela urged President Nicolas Maduro on Monday to cancel weekend elections that the group has denounced as undemocratic. The group “calls for the last time on the Venezuelan government to suspend the general elections” scheduled for Sunday, Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray told a press conference after the countries met in Mexico City. The elections were called […]
by James Mannion © Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States is prepared to offer North Korea security assurances and bountiful private investment if it makes the strategic choice to give up its nuclear weapons, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged Sunday. The US price for normalization — complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization — is one Pyongyang has never before been willing to pay, seeing nuclear weapons as the ultimate […]
by Ian Geoffrey Timberlake © Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Top US officials insisted Sunday that they could still push forward the troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace process despite outrage across the Arab world over the opening of the new American embassy in Jerusalem. Speaking on the eve of the embassy opening, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was hopeful of success in efforts to end the decades-old conflict while National Security Advisor John […]
