The topic of this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos is “Creating a shared future in a fractured world. [1]” WEF founder Klaus Schwab said, “There is today a real danger of a collapse of our global systems. But change is not just happening — it's in our hands to improve the state of the world and that is what the World Economic Forum stands for. [2]”.

On 15th January, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia web page published the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov’s statements and answers to questions to media made at a press conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2017 in Moscow on January 15, 2018.

More than 100 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar since Wednesday, with the latest refugees saying army operations are continuing in troubled Rakhine State, raising doubts about plans to send back 655,500 who had already fled.

On Dec 19, 2017, Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said that the government was considering a Chinese proposal to use renminbi (RMB or yuan) instead of the US dollar for payments in all bilateral trade between China and Pakistan.