By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES President Trump’s top diplomat Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was all smiles with a look of determination on his face as he met with members of Saudi Arabia’s leadership Tuesday. Pompeo was dispatched to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Tuesday in Riyadh to discuss the disappearance of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi. President Trump dispatched Pompeo to Saudi Arabia’s
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES In an apparent effort to keep U.S.-Saudi relations intact, President Trump Monday backed away from statements he made over the weekend threatening Riyadh with “severe punishment” if the Kingdom were found to be involved in the killing
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Saudi Arabia is in a diplomatic nightmare as it scrambles to explain to the world what happened to missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The situation is also stretching diplomatic relations between the Kingdom and the United States to the
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NATO is set to show the world the military alliance is ready to respond to any threat from any direction, particularly Russia, by conducting the largest exercises in decades. UK troops landed at Rotterdam in The Netherlands this week
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Wednesday accused his nemesis Senator Bob Menendez and the Democrats of “putting our nation at risk” by delaying confirmation of nominees to key diplomatic posts.“In order to conduct U.S. foreign policy, the State Department
President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, has resigned, ahead of what Mr. Trump promised on Twitter on Tuesday was a “big announcement” with Ms. Haley at the White House, according to the New York Times. Haley’s Surprise Resignation is Subject of
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a statement by International Criminal Court Judge Chile Oboe-Osuji regarding Member States public support: “As part of the ongoing 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, high representatives of United Nations member States and others made interventions in both
By Gary Raynaldo Diplomatic Times The United States went before the International Court of Justice in The Hague Monday to confront Tehran at the UN’s top court over billions of dollars in frozen assets. The court appearance comes a week after the ICJ ordered the
By Gary Raynaldo The Ivory Coast government granted amnesty to its former First Lady Simone Gbagbo in August and she was released from prison. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattarra offered amnesty to the west African nation’s former First Lady who was in jail along with 800 others for crimes connected