Pena Nieto (Mexico's President) extended invitations to both candidates last month; Donald Trump accepted and flew to Mexico City last Wednesday for a meeting. Hillary Clinton has refused to go to Mexico after Trump. In the interview with the ABC news when Hillary Clinton was asked if she plans to go to Mexico before elections (08.11.2016) Clinton gave the one-word answer - "no". Clinton is intended to focus on policies to create jobs in the United States and to do what she must, to make sure Americans have the best possible opportunities in the future. Mr. Peña Nieto has struggled to portray the visit as a part of an evenhanded attempt to explain to both Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton, his Democratic opponent, how important Mexico is to the United States.

South Sudan agreed on Sunday to receive 4,000 extra peacekeepers, in order to avoid any arms embargo. Despite the fact, the President Salva Kiir stated that the peacekeeping force was a violation of South Sudan's sovereignty. The South Sudanese Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs declared: "The transitional government of national unity agrees to the deployment of the regional force". The announcement followed a meeting between the President and the U.N. Security Council. It should be mentioned that the U.N. already has 12,000 peacekeepers in South Sudan. The main goal is to protect civilians in a country undermined by civil wars and ethnic tensions. Finally, the USA backed the decision: "The Security Council came to achieve what we have secured," U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power stated.

American THAAD missile defense system will appear in South Korea before the end of 2017. The Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) opposes the placement of the US missile defense system THAAD in South Korea, which should stand on alert until the end of 2017. This was stated by President of China Xi Jinping during a meeting with the head of South Korea Pak Geun-hye on the sidelines of the summit, "Big Twenty» (G20) in Hangzhou. According to Xi Jinping, these measures will not contribute to ensuring strategic stability in the region, and on the other hand, can lead to the aggravation of existing conflicts on the Korean peninsula.

The South Korean military conducted a preliminary analysis of the missile launches that North Korea has made today. According to Seoul, ballistic missiles "Nodon" were launched. According to the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Korea today, at 12 hours and 14 minutes, North Korea has made the launch of three ballistic missiles. Volley was made from the province of North Hwange, in the west of the DPRK. Rockets also passed through the whole territory of the country to the east and fell into the waters of the East (Japan) Sea.

The issue over the status of the Kuril Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk appears to be nearing a compromise between Russia and Japan. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met at Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia on September 2. The Kuril Island dispute has been an ongoing issue in Russo-Japanese relations, however, both the two made progress toward a possible peace treaty between the two nations. In Addition to a potential consensus over the islands dispute, the two spoke about deeper and more substantial economic ties. Moreover, the two Discussed a joint oil venture into the Russia's Far East. In conclusion, both Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe agreed that a partnership and amicable ties would be in the best interest of both nations.

Hollande has announced an increase in France’s official development assistance budget for 2017, putting an end to several successive years of funding cuts, due to the report. Today the president told: “France must prepare the example on development assistance,” and arranged an assembly of French ambassadors at a meeting in Paris. Hollande promised to increase France’s development spending, which has suffered year-on-year cuts since he began his mandate in 2012 with negotiations on France’s 2017 finance bill looming on the skyline.