US envoy says no signs of persecution in Vietnam highlands
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A senior US State Department official said she had seen no signs of persecution in Vietnam's Central Highlands of ethnic minority people who had fled to Cambodia and were later repatriated.
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A top Iraqi official accused the country's neighbors Tuesday of doing too little to stop foreigners from joining the brutal insurgency, while the U.S. combat death toll neared 1,000 with the killing of an American soldier in Baghdad.
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The United States will not attend next   week's summit in Cuba of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that   will gather some of its most hostile critics just 90 miles from   U.S. soil, the top U.S. diplomat in Cuba said on Thursday.
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The US fully supports UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and is not trying to oust him, US Ambassador John Danforth says.
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More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war&#039;s chaotic early days has come to light &amp;#151; a letter from the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, informing the State Department that American soldiers would shoot refugees approaching their lines.
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Current talks on North Korean disarmament will end without a crucial deadline for the hermit nation to declare and close all its nuclear facilities, US chief envoy Christopher Hill said Thursday.
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The United States' top envoy in Hong Kong called on local authorities to respect "people's aspirations" in this partially democratic territory, according to a newspaper interview published Monday.
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Rebels in Indonesia's Aceh Province said that the group's top leadership had issued orders not to harm any aid workers.
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The verbal attacks Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched against President Bush should not affect diplomatic relations between the countries, the U.S. ambassador said Monday.
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Vietnam hopes Myanmar will make active contributions to the activities of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan said on Thursday.
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The US has confidence in UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and is not trying to oust him, outgoing US Ambassador John Danforth has said.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan -- The former US ambassador to the United Nations visited a camp for the displaced in the troubled Darfur region yesterday and sharply criticized Sudan, the United Nations, the US government, and the international community as doing too little to stem the humanitarian crisis.
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US envoy Christopher Hill has warned North Korea against provoking the international community with a nuclear test, urging the secretive state to return to stalled talks on its atomic program.
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Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Vietnam of mass arrests and torture of ethnic minorities in the central part of the country and urged Cambodia to open its border and allow asylum-seeking tribal members to cross.
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An imprisoned guerrilla whose capture in ignited a bitter dispute between Colombia and Venezuela said Wednesday he freely traveled abroad as a rebel envoy but denied allegations he was involved in drug trafficking or gun running.
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A U.S. Embassy official accused of asking an American student and Peace Corps volunteers to keep tabs on Venezuelans and Cubans in Bolivia will not return to the country, an embassy official confirmed Wednesday.
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The United States should "shut up" with its concerns about China's growing military spending because the increase is no threat, a Chinese ambassador said Thursday.