Foreign Ministers

Myanmar Foreign Minister Barred From ASEAN Meet

Myanmar's junta suffered a fresh diplomatic blow Thursday as regional bloc, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) barred its top diplomat from attending an upcoming meeting of foreign ministers.Cambodia, which currently holds the bloc's rotating chairmanship, said there had been too little progress on a "five-point consensus" agreed by leaders last year to try to defuse the crisis gripping Myanmar.The country has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung

4 February 2022
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UK Calls For Western Unity Against Russia, China

Russian sabre-rattling against Ukraine and an assertive China were top of the agenda as G7 foreign ministers met in Britain on Saturday, with calls for a united front against authoritarianism.The two-day gathering of top diplomats from the world's richest nations in Liverpool, northwest England, is the last in-person gathering of Britain's year-long G7 presidency, before it hands over the baton to Germany.Discussions were focused on Russia's build-up of troops on Ukraine's

12 December 2021
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G20: China Wants True Multilateralism

The United States (US) led calls at a G20 meeting Tuesday for greater global cooperation in light of the coronavirus crisis as China insisted that multilateralism should not just be a slogan.Italy welcomed foreign ministers of the Group of 20 major economies to the southern city of Matera for their first in-person talks since the start of the pandemic that has claimed nearly four million lives worldwide.In a sharp reversal in tone from the previous US administration, Secretary of State Antony

30 June 2021
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US: ASEAN must speak out on South China Sea

United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted Thursday that Washington was not asking Southeast Asian nations to "choose" between his country and rival power China, as he trailed a rebooted security and trade strategy at a Bangkok summit.The denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, a bitter trade war between the superpowers and open access to contested seas dominated talks between Pompeo and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the side-lines of a meeting of Southeast As

2 August 2019
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