The United States and Iran held fire for a second consecutive day after 13 nights of US strikes. Oman-led talks over the Strait of Hormuz are advancing, but there is no formal ceasefire and major disputes remain unresolved.
On 3 June the UN General Assembly elects five non-permanent Security Council members for 2027-2028, and Luxembourg's one vote weighs on two contested races. In the Asia-Pacific group, the US-backed Philippines, which Luxembourg has publicly endorsed, faces a late push from China- and Russia-backed Kyrgyzstan. In Luxembourg's own WEOG bloc, Austria, Germany and Portugal compete for just two seats.
Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates signed a treaty on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters during a 22 May 2026 working visit by UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Justice Minister Elisabeth Margue and UAE Minister of State Lana Zaki Nusseibeh signed the pact, which aims to speed judicial cooperation on serious crime, including financial and economic offences.
On 4–5 May 2026, Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa met Armenian leadership in Yerevan for the first formal EU-Armenia summit. Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended in the margins to discuss a joint EU-Ukraine drone-production deal.
Japan is trying to lock in a Trump-Takaichi meeting before the US president's planned mid-May visit to Beijing, anxious that a Trump-Xi deal could quietly trade Japanese interests.
Riyadh's foreign ministry urged restraint from both Washington and Tehran on 4 May, marking a more dovish stance than its Gulf neighbours and underscoring the kingdom's reluctance to be drawn into a wider war.
The fifth European Political Community summit drew nearly fifty heads of state to Yerevan on 4 May, with Volodymyr Zelenskyy's attendance putting Armenia on a collision course with the Kremlin.
From 13 to 23 April 2026, Pope Leo XIV travelled to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea — his first major international trip since being elected to succeed Pope Francis.
Prime Minister Luc Frieden spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in April 2026, in a relationship the Canadian PMO described as a growing bilateral partnership.
From 4 p.m. on 11 April through midnight on 12 April 2026, Russia and Ukraine paused fire for Orthodox Easter. Both sides accused each other of hundreds of breaches; US-mediated peace talks have effectively stalled.