According to western and Hungarian diplomats in Budapest, Orbán is planning to purge the diplomatic service, culling up to three-quarters of Hungary's ambassadors.
Diplomats said Brahimi would first visit Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt, all regional diplomatic heavyweights, for consultations before heading to Damascus.
Pope Francis and Vatican diplomats played key roles in the re-opening of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba and the release of the imprisoned American, Alan Gross, according to the leaders of the two countries and a Vatican statement issued on Wednesday.
US diplomats in Yemen say they have been in contact with an American citizen whose lawyers consider him to have disappeared from jail in the country.
Foreign diplomats were converging on Burma on Thursday, seeking to discuss the Asian migrant crisis which is widely believed to have its roots in the mass fleeing of the country's persecuted Rohingya minority.
While the financial dispute is by far the biggest issue in the fallout from the Greek election, diplomats and officials in Brussels are surprised that the new Athens team chose to pick a fight over Russia and Ukraine.
Diplomats said that meant broader financial and economic penalties against Moscow than those imposed last July and which need to be renewed by this July.
"We know that it is far easier to walk rapidly down this corridor, far easier to look away," Michele J Sison, the US deputy representative to the UN, told the gathered crowd of diplomats and journalists.
Last night, businessmen and former diplomats joined the chorus of criticism, suggesting that the findings had not been promoted because they were inconvenient for the Tory party.
Sundown, some drinks, a colonial-era hotel with fans cooling a terrace, waves crashing on the nearby beach, a group of British diplomats, a minister – and a 34-year-old businessman called Adam Werritty.
Western diplomats in the Greek capital speak of "a dangerous game of brinkmanship" being played at a highly sensitive time.
