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France focuses on responsibility and solidarity in the face of global challenges (UN News)

In his address to the UN General Assembly on Monday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian upheld multilateralism as the key to overcoming global challenges including conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic...

Syria committed to ‘combating and eradicating terrorism’, General Assembly hears (UN News)

In his speech to the high-level debate at the UN General Assembly on Monday, Fayssal Mekdad, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of Syria, reaffirmed his country’s commitment to combat terrorism and aim...

Secretary Antony J. Blinken And Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan At the Signing of the Singapore-United States Third-Country Training Program (TCTP) Memorandum of Understanding...

SECRETARY BLINKEN:  Well, good afternoon, everyone.  It is especially a pleasure to have my good friend the foreign minister here at the State Department. ...

Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don (US Department of State)

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met with Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai...

Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Singapore Foreign Minister Balakrishnan (US Department of State)

The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan.  Secretary Blinken and...

Boosting production, crucial for least developed countries, post pandemic (UN News)

The world’s poorest countries will remain on the margins of the global economy if States are unable to boost economic production, and the international...

Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Pershing’s Travel to South Africa, Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, and Senegal...

Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Jonathan Pershing will travel to Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa; Windhoek, Namibia; Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Brazzaville,...

Yemen: Endless suffering of children continues due to war, aid crisis (UN News)

The Yemen conflict killed or maimed 2,600 children as hostilities intensified in 2019 and 2020; that’s according to a new report of the UN Secretary-General...

Cyber defense across the ocean floor: The geopolitics of submarine cable security (Justin Sherman, Atlantic Council)

The vast majority of intercontinental global Internet traffic—upwards of 95 percent—travels over undersea cables that run across the ocean floor. These hundreds of cables,...

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