By Amina J. Mohammed -- Following is a slightly abridged version of UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed’s remarks at the Security Council meeting on peace and security in Africa, in which she reports on her visits to Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. – Editor UNITED NATIONS (WEBPUBLICAPRESS) –…

By John J. Metzler - St. NAZAIRE, France — “Lafayette, we are here,” became the clarion call upon the arrival of the American Expeditionary Force to France in 1917. The USA had just entered the hostilities, three years into the Great War, and now the battle hardened U.S. General John Pershing was in a…

(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) New York - US President Donald Trump has reverted to blaming “both sides” for the deadly violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia. Politicians from both parties in the US were quick to react, rejecting Trump’s position, Radio Deutsche Welle (RDW) reported quoting other news agencies. At a dramatic press conference…

By Mike O’Sullivan (VOA News) LOS ANGELES — Vice President Mike Pence heads to Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Panama on Sunday, meeting with foreign leaders in a role that is becoming familiar for an administration that has left many top diplomatic posts unfilled. Since April, Pence has visited South Korea, Japan, Indonesia and Australia, attended…

By David L. Phillips – Serbia wants to join the European Union (EU). Brussels is clear: no EU membership for Serbia until it normalizes relations with Kosovo. Normalization means recognizing Kosovo’s independence. Kosovo rejected ties to Serbia in 1991, in response to Slobodan Milosevic’s draconian repression. More than 10,000 Kosovo Albanians died…

    By J Nastranis -UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – Nearly three months after Cristina Gallach of Spain vacated her post as head of the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI), Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Alison Smale of the United Kingdom as her successor with the designation Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications. Smale is the…

By Esther Faiden (RDW) – Whenever the situation on the Korean Peninsula gets tense, calls ring out for China to mediate. Beijing, it is said, should put pressure on its neighbor. But China has its own opinion.   It was a customary response from Beijing: The crisis over North Korea is “complicated and tense,” read…