President Donald Trump said he believes Amb. Nikki Haley has helped make the position of UN ambassador “more glamorous” and “more important” and said that “many people” want to succeed her in the post. “I think she’s helped make it a much better position…She’s made it a more glamorous position, she’s made it, more importantly, a…
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EU Ambassadors conference in Brussels
The annual EU Ambassadors conference will take place in Brussels from 3-7 September. The conference brings together the heads of all EU Delegations around the world as well as heads of the EU Missions, EU Special Representatives and EU Special Envoys. The annual EU Ambassadors conference will take place in Brussels from 3-7 September. The conference…
HE Antonov – Russian Ambassador to USA
A deputy minister of foreign affairs of Russian Federation His Excellency (HE) Anatoly Antonov (62) is appointed as a new ambassador to the USA, the news announced via the site of Kremlin. Antonov candidacy has been approved by the Council of Federation, the upper chamber of the parliament. https://twitter.com/PutinRF_Eng/status/899698630285774853 In Russia Antonov is well-known…
Russian diplomat to lead UN Counter-terrorism office
United Nations head Antonio Guterres has chosen to appoint a Moscow envoy in Vienna Vladimir Voronkov to head a newly created U.N. Office of Counterterrorism, giving a Russian a top job at U.N. headquarters in New York. Russia’s Ambassador to International Organisations in Vienna, Vladimir Voronkov, will have the rank of undersecretary-general. He’s spent more…
Brexit: Tim Barrow UK envoy to EU
A career diplomat, and former ambassador to Moscow, Tim Barrow (52) will come to Brussels as a replacement for ambassador Sir Ivan Rogers to lead the UK Representation to the European Union. Political director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Barrow would start working from next week onwards, according to UK officials. The PM office…
The world media discusses the move of the he UK’s ambassador to the European Union, Sir Ivan Rogers who resigned from the beginning of 2017, addressing a following letter to his staff: Dear All, Happy New Year! I hope that you have all had/are still having, a great break, and that you will come back…
HR Mogherini condolences to Russia
“I was deeply shocked to hear of the inconceivable attack against Ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara this afternoon. Our fullest sympathies are with his family, all his colleagues, and the Russian authorities. The European Union condemns in the strongest possible manner this attack against your country’s representative in Turkey. We wish to express our solidarity…
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