NEW YORK – It’s not polite, as a general rule, to visit your hosts and criticize the way they do things. Unless, that is, you’re helping to pay the rent. World leaders have spent the past week at the United Nations doing just that, convening at its grandiloquent headquarters to tell each other — and…
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has sharply criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza City and the West Bank during his first visit to the United Nations in New York. “Across Gaza, people are living through hell on earth,” Wadephul said on Monday at a UN conference organized by France and Saudi Arabia to strengthen the two-state…
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key Takeaways German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul on Monday called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to engage in swift negotiations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, while…
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, just ahead of a trip to Japan and Indonesia, criticized China on Sunday for its increasingly aggressive behaviour in the Taiwan Strait and the East and South China Seas. “Fundamental rules of our global coexistence are at stake here,” he warned before his departure from the Hamburg Airport. This also…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat on Wednesday that Beijing cannot afford a Russian loss in Ukraine because it fears the United States would then shift its whole focus to Beijing, according to several people familiar with the exchange. The comment, to the EU’s Kaja Kallas, would confirm what many…
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul urged China to use its influence on Moscow to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to swiftly end its war on Ukraine. “We are counting on credible and concrete efforts by China, on its considerable influence on Russia, to end this conflict,” Wadephul said during a press conference with Chinese Foreign…
BRUSSELS/LONDON: The European Union and Britain announced new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday without waiting for the United States to join them, a day after President Donald Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin failed to elicit a promise for a ceasefire in Ukraine. London and Brussels said their new measures would zero in on Moscow’s…