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1/30/2023 5:50:51 PM
Tehran on Monday summoned a Ukrainian diplomat to protest "biased" remarks by a presidential aide in Kyiv over a recent drone strike in Iran, the Islamic republic's foreign ministry said.
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War in Ukraine
1/23/2023 4:23:01 PM
Moscow on Monday downgraded diplomatic relations with Estonia and ordered its ambassador to leave Russia, accusing the Baltic country of "total Russophobia."
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World
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Region
1/17/2023 6:29:26 PM
Jordan summoned the Israeli ambassador to Amman on Tuesday to protest a move by Israeli police to block the Jordanian envoy from entering a volatile holy site in Jerusalem. The incident quickly escalated tensions between the neighbors and reflected the heightened sensitivity around the sacred compound under Israel's new ultranationalist government.
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1/17/2023 4:59:32 PM
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Libya Abdoulaye Bathily on Monday stressed the need for holding credible and inclusive elections to restore the legitimacy of the Libyan institutions.
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1/16/2023 8:12:37 PM
The UN special envoy for Yemen said Monday he is encouraged by intensified regional and international diplomatic activity to end the country's eight-year conflict. He urged the warring parties to work toward "a shared vision'' with concrete steps to restore peace to the Arab world's poorest nation.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/12/2023 4:00:03 PM
Russia and Ukraine have not reached a new prisoner exchange agreement during talks in Turkey, Moscow's envoy told AFP on Thursday, saying her earlier remarks about a swap were misinterpreted.
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World
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International
1/7/2023 8:09:16 PM
A top U.N. envoy met with the Taliban-led Afghan government’s higher education minister on Saturday to discuss the ban on women attending universities. Markus Potzel is the first international official to meet with him since the ban was introduced last month.
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Business
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Economy
12/21/2022 7:05:29 PM
Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, said that calling for restructuring the global finance system to be more fair and efficient in financing developmental and climate action is one of the most important outcomes of COP27.
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12/17/2022 11:49:23 AM
The U.N. special envoy for Libya warned Friday that signs of partition are already evident in the troubled North African nation and urged influential nations to pressure Libya's rival leaders to urgently finalize the constitutional basis for elections.
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International
12/11/2022 12:19:34 PM
The US government is sending its first high-level delegation to China since a pledge made last month by Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden to repair frayed relations.
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World
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International
12/10/2022 5:50:10 PM
The United States is open to amending lucrative green subsidies that have drawn transatlantic anger for allegedly encouraging job losses in Europe, US climate envoy John Kerry said.
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Climate change
12/10/2022 11:48:05 AM
Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN climate change high-level champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, has been selected by New African Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Africans of 2022.
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12/7/2022 6:13:25 PM
UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said here on Wednesday that the US-led Western sanctions on Syria shouldn't block humanitarian assistance.
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12/2/2022 1:01:06 PM
Hady Amr, the recently appointed US Department of State’s special representative for Palestinian affairs bureau of near eastern affairs, spoke in a special briefing via telephone about the US’s commitment to “lifting up Palestinian lives” by helping them to achieve freedom, dignity and justice.
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World
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International
11/29/2022 4:43:16 PM
Britain on Tuesday summoned the Chinese ambassador in London for a rebuke after the arrest and alleged assault of a BBC journalist covering Covid protests.
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World
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Region
11/21/2022 7:04:01 PM
Turkey summoned the Swedish ambassador on Monday after images that allegedly insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and served as Kurdish militant propaganda were projected on the Turkish Embassy building in Stockholm, Turkey's state-run news agency reported.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/20/2022 10:24:43 PM
COP27 made a historic and unprecedented achievement by establishing a Loss and Damage Fund, whose specific tasks a transitional committee will implement during the coming weeks, UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda Mahmoud Mohieldin said on Sunday.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 9:21:10 PM
Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua welcomed Saturday the resumption of formal talks with US counterpart John Kerry as "very constructive", as the world's two top polluters ended a freeze in cooperation.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/19/2022 10:54:34 AM
John Kerry, the top U.S. envoy at this year's U.N. climate talks in Egypt, has tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesperson said late Friday night, another potential setback for negotiations that were already going into overtime with no result in sight.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/17/2022 10:41:14 PM
UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda Mahmoud Mohieldin lauded the launch of the Low Carbon Transport for Urban Sustainability (LOTUS) initiative, which aims to decarbonize the transportation sector.
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