Patricia Rader, outgoing Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development in Liberia, has said farewell to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf after spending two years in Monrovia. Rader…
The Prime Minister of Djibouti, Mr. Dileita Mohamed Dileita, is in Brussels for talks with NATO bosses. The head of the East African nation, which lies on the Horn of…
Australia has restored the post of High Commissioner to Fiji, three years after the previous commissioner was expelled in 2009. Foreign Minister, Bob Carr, said the move followed trilateral talks…
The Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt, is in Beijing to meet business leaders and hold political talks. Mr Bildt will participate in the Stockholm China Forum and engage…
Four new ambassadors have arrived in Sweden, including an archbishop from the Vatican. Their Excellencies presented letters of credence to HM The King of Sweden on Thursday 25th October 2012:…
Parliamentary elections took place in Belarus on Sunday 23 September, 2012, against a backdrop of widespread human rights abuses, the country’s deteriorating relationship with the EU and a diplomatic crisis…
European Commission needs to radically reduce corporate lobbyists in its advisory groups – according to Yiorgos Vassalos, of the Corporate Europe Observatory. Law-making in the European Union is under scrutiny…
President Sirleaf of Liberia has personally thanked the Egyptian Ambassador to Liberia, His Excellency Mr. Maher El-Adawy, for his positive contribution to her country. The pair met at the Executive…
Caroline Fleetwood is to be the new Swedish Ambassador to Portugal. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt, appointed Mrs Fleetwood to the embassy in Lisbon where she will begin…
The Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been caught on the back foot by a “misleading” article published in The Guardian which accused her of an anti-gay stance. A swift…