International

• Friday, October 7th 2016 - 11:41 UTC

  Guterres experience with refugees and Syria, were decisive for his UN nomination

  

  Antonio Guterres from Portugal, unanimously backed by the Security Council, will become the United Nations next secretary general, and is scheduled to assume the office, on the 38th floor of the U.N. building in New York City, on Jan. 1, 2017. His ascendance came at a time when expectations were high that the U.N. might elect either a woman or an Eastern European to the position, neither of which has happened before.

• Thursday, October 6th 2016 - 05:50 UTC

  UK/Argentina statement refers to all South Atlantic issues “without exclusion” and shared responsibility

  

  Foreign minister Susana Malcorra addressing Argentine Senators described the UK/Argentina statement as “very positive” since UK accepts to dialogue on all South Atlantic issues, “without exclusions”, with shared responsibility in eliminating obstacles to the region's development and in this new positive spirit eventually discuss Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2016 - 19:40 UTC

  FIFA names chief commercial officer to ramp up Russia 2018 Cup sponsorships

  

  Le Floc’h, UEFA’s former marketing director until 2010, leaves Dubai-based Customised Solution FZ to take up the role of FIFA’s chief commercial officer on Oct. 11. The position was created as part of the restructuring of world football’s governing body in the wake of the corruption scandals that brought the federation to its knees.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2016 - 17:05 UTC

  Antonio Guterres has Security Council support to become next UN Secretary General

  

  Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres has unofficially been selected as the next U.N. Secretary-General. He is expected to be officially endorsed in the coming days. Following a decisive round of voting Wednesday in the U.N. Security Council, the veteran politician and diplomat prevailed with 13 votes in favor of his candidacy, none objecting to it and two votes of “no opinion”.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2016 - 11:06 UTC

  “No way José”, Gibraltar replies to Spain's shared sovereignty with UK proposal

  

  Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said that all the potential economic benefits from joint UK/Spain Gibraltar sovereignty could exist today if Spain respected the Gibraltarians' choice not to be Spanish. The statement was in response to Spain's formal invitation to the UK to commence joint sovereignty negotiations on Gibraltar.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2016 - 11:01 UTC

  London confident of a Brexit deal “suitable and adequate” for Gibraltar and UK

  

  United Kingdom's International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has said he is confident a Brexit deal could be struck that “will get a suitable and adequate response to the problems we face” both for Gibraltar as well as for the UK.

• Wednesday, October 5th 2016 - 06:33 UTC

  Malvinas has “an enormous emotional content” but “my duty is to advance dialogue in all issues”

  

  Foreign minister Susana Malcorra said that the Falklands/Malvinas issue has “an enormous emotional content”, but as her country's main diplomat her duty is to ensure a dialogue that can advance, in the best possible way, on all issues. The minister also described the Mercosur relation with Brazil as “inexorable”, which is beyond ideologies underlining the significance of Brazil's Michel Temer recent visit to Argentina.

• Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 19:19 UTC

  Cephalopods congress and frozen seafood exhibition opens in Vigo

  

  Spain's Fisheries Secretary General Andrés Hermida opened on Monday the World Congress on Cephalopods organized by FAO and the Conxemar in Vigo underlining the importance of this large and heterogeneous group of species, --octopus, cuttlefish, squid--, for the fisheries sector and as raw material for the processing industry.

• Tuesday, October 4th 2016 - 08:50 UTC

  Until Falkland Islanders so wish, “there can be no dialogue on sovereignty”

  

  The United Kingdom has no doubt about the principal and the right of the Falkland Islanders to self determination as enshrined in both the UN charter and Article one of both UN covenants of Human Rights, said British representative Barrister Margaret Purdasy, at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

• Monday, October 3rd 2016 - 08:09 UTC

  Argentina claims Falklands' sovereignty at UN Human Rights Council in Geneva

  

  Argentina again claimed Falkland Islands' sovereignty and called for bilateral negotiations, as indicated by the UN General Assembly, at the closing 33rd session of the Human Rights Council last Friday in Geneva.