Foreign Minister

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Jaishankar congratulates Paudyal on her appointment as Nepal's ... (ThePrint)

New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday congratulated Dr Bimala Rai Paudyal on his appointment as Nepal's new ...

Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Chairman Lingden took oath as Deputy PM and Minister of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation. (ANI) Similarly, RPP’s Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan administered the oath of office and secrecy as the Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and Bikram Pandey as the Minister for Urban Development.

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Israel has too many foreign ministers - editorial (The Jerusalem Post)

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 15, 2023. (photo credit: MENAHEM ...

Does Israel need a Diaspora Affairs Ministry when it has a department in the Foreign Ministry in charge of Diaspora affairs, as well as the Jewish Agency, which deals with Jewish communities abroad? In fact, it began in 1999 with Ehud Barak, who created the Regional Cooperation Ministry as a place to put his political rival at the time, Shimon Peres. Does it need a Regional Cooperation Ministry, when the Foreign Ministry has eminently capable diplomats well-versed in the region? Still, when it came to classic Foreign Service work – including managing ties with the world and public diplomacy – the Foreign Ministry ran the show. By emphasizing that Israel is not occupying any land, Distal Atbaryan is bringing the emphasis back to war and terror. The idea was that when people abroad think of Israel, they should think of sun and fun and hi-tech, not war and terrorism.

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