The move reflects France’s strategic recalibration amid rising domestic pressures, European fragmentation over Gaza and a widening rift with Washington.
The talks aim to restore diplomatic ties and eventually normalise relations between the two, which have been locked in Cold War-era hostilities.
The reason for SA expelling diplomat Jean-Claude Sindayigaya is not yet clear, but he has already left the country.
South Africa and Rwanda have both issued diplomatic expulsions as a row escalated over the attempted assassination of an exiled Rwandan general.
Government’s decision to recall its ambassador to Israel is premature and inappropriate, the Jewish leadership in the country said on Thursday.
Cuba’s President, Raul Castro, has offered to talk to the United States and ease half a century of enmity.
United States President Barack Obama on Friday launched a historic direct appeal to the Iranian people, urging an end to decades of animosity.
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/ 17 December 2008
Ali Alatas, hailed for brokering the historic 1991 peace settlement to end the war with Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, has died of a heart attack.
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/ 17 December 2008
Ali Alatas, one of Indonesia’s most widely respected foreign ministers, has died. He was 76.
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/ 29 October 2008
The United States may close its embassy in Damascus to the public due to fears of violence, a US spokesperson said on Wednesday.