By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Aug 12, 2023The US Department of State has issued a joint statement following the meeting of Special Representatives and Special Envoys for Afghanistan from the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, and the United States. This gathering took place within the framework of the C5+1 regional diplomatic platform. Per the statement, the delegates convened in Astanan, Kazakhstan, on July…
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report in The Island, Aug 6, 2023Japan has asked Sri Lanka to secure a debt restructure deal with China before any discussion on reviving the Light Rail Transit (LRT) project scrapped by former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, diplomatic sources said. Foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi made it clear during his brief visit to Colombo last week for talks with President Ranil Wickremesinghe that priority must be clinching a debt deal with Beijing before the end of August.…
Reuters report, June 19, 2023 at 9:57 PMQatar and the United Arab Emirates’ respective embassies reopened on Monday to resume work after the two Gulf states agreed to restore diplomatic ties, Qatar’s foreign ministry said. The restoration of ties comes amid a broader regional push for reconciliation and more than two years after Arab states ended a boycott of Doha that had shattered the Western-allied Gulf Arab bloc. The Qatari ministry said in a statement…
Reuters report, June 19, 2023 at 9:57 PMQatar and the United Arab Emirates’ respective embassies reopened on Monday to resume work after the two Gulf states agreed to restore diplomatic ties, Qatar’s foreign ministry said. The restoration of ties comes amid a broader regional push for reconciliation and more than two years after Arab states ended a boycott of Doha that had shattered the Western-allied Gulf Arab bloc. The Qatari ministry said in a statement…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, April 05,2023Foreign Secretary Bharat Raj Paudyal is Beijing-bound as the head of the Nepali delegation to the 15th meeting of the Bilateral Diplomatic Consultation Mechanism. At the meeting scheduled for Friday, Paudyal and Sun Weidong, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, will lead their respective delegations. According to Nepali officials, although China has been pushing hard for Nepal’s support for the Global Security Initiative…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, March 29,2023 at 8:44 PMDeputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai said that based on the Doha Agreement, the US should resume its diplomatic presence in Afghanistan. According to Stanikzai, other nations would resume their diplomatic ties with Afghanistan if America reopened its embassy. While visiting the Afghan Consulate in Dubai, Stanakzai noted that the US pledged in Doha to cooperate with the new Afghan government and to avoid…
by Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, Mar 6,2023The Foreign Ministry is once again under pressure for the appointment of various ruling party politicians’ relatives to diplomatic posts, Daily Mirror learns. In the foreign service, there are 98 vacancies to be filled, both at 55 Sri Lankan missions abroad and the Ministry in Colombo. Daily Mirror learns that the politicians with links to the government had sought to secure posts for their relatives, including children. The…
AFP report in Dawn, March 1st, 2023KABUL: Taliban forces claimed to have killed a top commander of the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) militant group, who allegedly planned attacks against diplomatic missions in Afghanistan’s capital, a government official said. Violence in Afghanistan dramatically dipped after the Taliban seized power in August 2021. But in the past year, security has worsened, with a spate of mass casualty attacks claimed by Islamic State’s regional chapter, IS-K. Taliban forces killed…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 19, 2023The Pushpa Kamal Dahal government has reintroduced the diplomatic code of conduct that was unveiled in 2011.A Cabinet meeting on Wednesday decided to enforce the diplomatic code of conduct and make it mandatory for all ministers to follow while meeting with foreign diplomats and representatives of foreign governments, should invite the officials of the foreign ministry, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Bishnu Poudel. The…
report in TOLOnews, Jan 1, 2023 at 9:01 PMThe chargés d’affaires of Afghanistan’s embassy in Islamabad, Sardar Ahmad Shakib, on Sunday said his office has maintained relations with diplomatic offices of at least 27 countries in Pakistan. Shakib said he has held at least 70 meetings with representatives of various countries in Islamabad. “There were 65 to 70 face-to-face meetings. They come here and we also went there and discussed Afghanistan’s reconstruction with them. We…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, Dec 13, 2022The Afghanistan War Commission was established by the U.S. Congress in December 2021 to conduct a comprehensive review of key decisions related to U.S. military, intelligence, foreign assistance, and diplomatic involvement in Afghanistan from June 2001 to August 2021. The Afghanistan War Commission is composed of 16 commissioners, eight appointed by Democratic members of Congress and eight appointed by Republican members of Congress. These bipartisan commissioners will…