YESTERDAY Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minster, called Mikheil Saakashvili "a pathology and anomaly of the Georgian people".
Late Thursday night, Russia's foreign minster, Sergey V. Lavrov, spoke on the telephone with his Swiss counterpart about the W.T.O.
Yet only two months ago, Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov of Russia, shook hands and welcomed Khaled Meshaal, the leader of the Hamas movement, to Russia.
Neither of the two candidates in the 14 June election runoff, former finance minister Ashraf Ghani and former foreign minster Abdullah Abdullah, has admitted defeat.
Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minster, said: "Egypt did not occupy the two islands, but entered them on a Saudi request.
The Turkish foreign minster, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, has called Austria the "capital of radical racism" after the country's chancellor, Christian Kern, suggested ending EU accession talks with Ankara.
The rather useless Lithuanian foreign ministry website gives only a bland statement but this report on EU Observer shows the outspoken Lithuanian foreign minster, Audrionis Ažubalis, in splendid form, comparing Mr Golovatov to the Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radko Mladić.
I think Khamenei has given President Rouhani and Foreign Minster Zarif enough flexibility to make tactical concessions in hopes of obtaining sanctions relief without giving up Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
A direct conversation between the Iranian foreign minster and US counterpart would have been unthinkable just five years ago, and Carter's statement is indicative of the improved diplomatic relations between Washington and Tehran.
