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Beirut (Lebanon), Jun 29 (EFE / EPA) .- Lebanese Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti met with the United States Ambassador to the country Dorothy Shea, after a Lebanese judge ordered media organizations to stop interviewing the diplomat after the comments made against Hezbollah.(CAMERA: Wael Hamzeh)
The defence of Europe without Ukraine would be a "futile task", Kyiv's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tells the press as he arrives for a meeting of his North Atlantic Treaty Organization counterparts in Brussels. Speaking after greeting the US-led defence alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Kuleba adds that he believes the Ukrainian armed forces to now be currently "the strongest and the most battle-hardened army in Europe" as its war against Russia's invading forces drags on towards a third year. Kuleba and his NATO counterparts on Wednesday are set to agree on a plan for reforms aimed at helping Ukraine towards eventual membership in the alliance. IMAGES
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrives at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in New Delhi, greeted by his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar. IMAGES
Chinese Foreign minister Qin Gang arrives at a G20 foreign ministers' meeting in New Delhi, greeted by his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar. IMAGES
The outgoing head of French diplomacy Jean-Yves Le Drian receives his successor Catherine Colonna at the Quai d'Orsay, the French foreign ministry's headquarters in Paris, for the transfer of power. IMAGES