US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch presented the copies of her credentials to Foreign Minister of Armenia Mr. Edward Nalbandian. Thus U.S. has an ambassador in Armeia after two years of absense when the previous ambassador expressed his personal opinion acknowledging the events of 1915 in Eastern Turkey as genocide against Armenians.
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It seems that U.S. is abandoning the idea to go to war with Iran and coming toward the direction of peace and possibly going to the point of opening a diplomatic mission in the capital of Iran, Tehran. Certainly a very positive development and good for the world. The story from RFERL reads that USA, according to reports, will establish a diplomatic presence in Tehran.
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Ankara has reacted angrily to the Armenian Genocide recognition by the US House of Representatives' committee supporting the description of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks after 1915 as genocide, and has recalled its ambassador in USA back to Turkey.
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The United States and North Korea held a first round of historic talks in New York earlier this week aimed at establishing normalized, diplomatic relations between the two countries. The U.S. negotiator, Ambassador Christopher Hill, is upbeat about the nature of the discussions. He also admits the hardest part -- verifying that North Korea is dismantling its plutonium production capabilities -- is still ahead.
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Talks between Japan and North Korea on diplomatic normalization have broken down in Hanoi. The North Koreans objected to Japanese demands for a full accounting of Japanese citizens kidnapped by Pyongyang in the 1970s and '80s. From Hanoi, Matt Steinglass has more.
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Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Thursday afternoon. The meeting kicked off the process of establishing official diplomatic relations between the communist country and the Holy See, to the delight of Vietnamese Catholics. From Hanoi, Matt Steinglass has more.
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Pope Benedict XVI's talks Thursday with Vietnam's prime minister mark an important step toward establishing diplomatic relations, the Vatican said after the highest-level meeting between the Holy See and the communist government following decades of tension.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has reportedly dismissed Kyiv's ambassador to Austria following reports suggesting he and another envoy gave preferential treatment to Turkmen oppositionists, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
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For decades, the month of April has been a time for grieving by Armenians and their diaspora, with routine commemorations marking the onset of the mass killings of Armenians in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire.
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Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday said the church will pursue efforts to form diplomatic ties with Beijing as it tries to help its "suffering" faithful there. Church officials are holding a summit at the Vatican to map out the church's strategy with China since it broke off diplomatic relations with the country in 1951. For VOA, Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome.
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Syria and Iraq re-opened embassies in each other's capitals Monday for the first time in more than two decades.
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