Tag: The Hague

• Wednesday, November 28th 2012 - 22:20 UTC

  Colombia withdraws from UN Justice Court angry at latest ruling on Caribbean islands

  

  Colombia has withdrawn from a treaty that binds it to the UN International Court of Justice in anger at a ruling that shifts some of its resource-rich waters to Nicaragua, President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Wednesday.

• Friday, October 26th 2012 - 06:40 UTC

  Argentina admits Libertad is the 29th asset impound case by ‘vulture’ funds

  

  Argentina finally admitted that the retaining of the training frigate ARA Libertad in Ghana is not an isolated case since the so called ‘vulture’ funds have managed to impound a total of 28 assets including the presidential aircraft Tango 01, bank accounts, property and even a satellite.

• Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 10:04 UTC

  Paraguay sounding the possibility of joining the Pacific Group

  

  Paraguay is sounding the recently created Pacific Block made up of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico with the possibility of considering applying to join it, revealed the country’s Foreign affairs minister Jose Fernandez Estigarribia.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 18:21 UTC

  Paraguay to appeal Mercosur sanctions before the The Hague Court of Justice

  

  The Paraguayan government had decided to appeal before the International Court of Justice in The Hague the suspension imposed on Paraguay by the governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay as a sanction for the removal of Fernando Lugo as president of the country, last June 22.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2012 - 04:12 UTC

  Argentine human rights lawyer to become FIFA first head of Ethics Committee

  

  FIFA, the official international governing body of football is set to appoint top human rights lawyer Luis Moreno Ocampo as the first head of the new Ethics committee’s investigation arm.

• Monday, February 13th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  It is official: Uruguay’s UPM-Botnia pulp mill does not contaminate, never has

  

  A huge pulp mill, UPM, which has been at the heart of a several years’ controversy between Uruguay and Argentina, does not contaminate revealed Uruguay’s Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro before the Uruguayan parliament.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 04:21 UTC

  Lawmaker says Chile should keep distance from the Malvinas issue

  

  Lawmaker Ivan Moreira from the ruling coalition junior partner UDI said that Chile should not get involved in the Falklands/Malvinas issue which has to be addressed between Argentina and the UK, and recalled that Chile has its own problem with the coming International Court of Justice dispute with neighbouring Peru.