Concerns over government's silence on 'India-related' issues

China and Pakistan do not have very good foreign relations with India. This government has had a lot of engagement with India.

6 November 2022

Maldives requests emergency UNGA session on Palestine-Israel

More than 5,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli offensive against Gaza since the 7th of this month.

24 October 2023

Ukraine war, US-China tensions to dominate G20 FM meets

China's top diplomat Wang Yi has said that the U.S. handling of the balloon incident had been "unimaginable" and "hysterical".

28 February 2023

Will not forgo 'grain of Maldives soil', FM assures

Shahid said the president's letter said that he would vote in favour of Mauritius if there was a re-poll.

9 November 2022

Maldivian dies in Malaysian high-rise building fall

Some newspapers reported that it was a 22-year-old male student from Addu who died.

11 October 2023

Maldives FM meets UN Secretary General Guterres

Zameer noted the importance of building on the momentum from the fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4).

28 June 2024

Japan, China to hold security talks next week, Japan says

Hayashi said he also discussed the identification of surveillance balloons in Japan's skies with his Chinese counterpart.

19 February 2023

Government denies chance for press questions on Indian influence

In his four years as a minister, Shahid has met the media sparingly.

9 November 2022