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Published time: 13 Dec, 2017 22:59 State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert appeared to walk back statements by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calling for negotiations with North Korea. Nauert said Pyongyang would have to suspend weapons tests before talks could take place. “We’re ready to talk anytime they’d like to talk,” Tillerson said on Tuesday, […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said all that stands between direct diplomacy with North Korea is their willingness “to come to the table” with a desire to “make a different choice.” “We’re ready to talk anytime they’d like to talk,” Tillerson said about North Korea on Tuesday afternoon. This shift away from US policy […]
USA.Gov The US has fallen behind other countries in developing a presence in the Arctic, according to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. But the Coast Guard’s commander in the region says the US is on good terms with its neighbors, citing logistics and resources as his main concerns. The Coast Guard is working to bolster […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images A dozen US State Department officials accused Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating the US law on child soldiers. They allege Tillerson should not have excluded Iraq, Myanmar, and Afghanistan from a US list of child soldier use offenders. The 2008 law ensures that foreign militaries that use child soldiers do not […]
Published time: 2 Nov, 2017 19:20 The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, held a phone conversation on Thursday, the ministry reported, saying that situation in Syria was among the major issues discussed. The two senior diplomats talked on joint efforts to annihilate hotbeds of terrorism in Syria, […]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has reportedly scrapped an office within the State Department that coordinated foreign sanctions policy. Sanctions have long served as a pillar of Washington’s foreign policy toward Iran, North Korea and Russia. The sanctions office was shuttered after the Trump administration missed an October 1 deadline to apply new penalties […]
In a secretive trip to Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson doubted Pakistan’s ability to fight the Taliban. But he also denied the Taliban has any path to victory, despite the Pentagon chief saying they were “surging.” Tillerson arrived at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul on Monday, following an earlier […]
As the fighting against Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq nears its end, Iraqi Shiite militias and their Iranian advisors need to “go home,” US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in an apparent attempt to curb Iran’s influence in Iraq. “Iranian militias that are in Iraq, now that the fight against … ISIS […]
Published time: 15 Oct, 2017 13:58 © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Washington will continue its diplomatic efforts to solve the North Korean crisis only “until first bomb drops,” US State Secretary Rex Tillerson told CNN. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Let’s block ads! (Why?) RT – Daily news
Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee said Friday that his biggest worry is that President Donald Trump is rendering Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ineffective at his job. Corker, who has been a vocal critic of Trump since announcing in September that he would retire before the 2018 election, told The Washington Post that although he worries about the […]
