Secretary of State News

An informal GoM has been constituted on UCC. The team has been formed under the leadership of Kiren Rijiju. The names of G Kishan Reddy, Smriti Irani are also included in this.

Blinken said that the government formed by the Taliban should respect the basic rights of Afghans Blinken`s remarks came during a bilateral meeting on Afghanistan

Quashing the speculation that the White House was hatching a plan to oust Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, United States President Donald Trump has said that `he is not leaving`.

The White House has developed a plan to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Mike Pompeo, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, within weeks, a senior Trump administration official said on Thursday.

US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tried to scotch speculation Thursday that she is gunning to become secretary of state, saying she is not interested in the role.

United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has issued a statement on Pakistan saying that the nation has suffered greatly from terrorism and can be an "important partner" in U.S.' shared goals of peace and stability, hours after President Donald Trump addressed America at the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall and presented his military strategy on Afghanistan.

The meeting between Donald Trump Jr and Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya was also attended by the President's campaign chairman at the time, Paul J Manafort, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it told The New York Times on Sunday. 

US President Donald Trump notched a victory Wednesday with Rex Tillerson anointed as his secretary of state.

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has emerged as a "serious" contender to become the next US secretary of state, a top aide to President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday, amid reports of intense infighting over key posts in the new administration.

In an apparent jab at presidential challengers Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday the United States must never again resort to torture.