Politics

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 21:08 UTC

  Spain accuses Gibraltar before the C 24 of “colonialism by consent”

  

  Spain has told the United Nations Committee of 24 (C24) that despite the “impasse afflicting the Brussels process”, Madrid's goodwill allows regional co-operation with Gibraltar and UK to continue under the Tripartite Forum.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 20:22 UTC

  Dilma moving closer to the opposition and “taking distance from Lula da Silva”

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has exchanged approximation signals with the opposition, beginning to “take distance” from her mentor Lula da Silva and seems closer to opposition Senator and former president Fernando Cardoso.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 19:45 UTC

  Gibraltar calls on opposition to forget about C24, ‘they will never de-colonize’

  

  The Gibraltar Government called this week on the Opposition “to abandon attendance at the Committee of 24 and support Chief Minister Peter Caruana at the United Nations in October.”

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 18:36 UTC

  Falklands’ sovereignty “is not negotiable. Period”, says British PM Cameron

  

  British Prime Minister, David Cameron, sent a clear message on Wednesday during a Parliamentary speech regarding Argentina’s claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands as the British leader stated that sovereignty “is not negotiable. Period!”

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 02:43 UTC

  “Self determination and self sufficiency”, Falklands message to the world on Liberation Day

  

  “Self-determination and self-sufficiency” is the Falkland Islands message to the world on the day the Islands commemorate the 29th anniversary of its liberation, said the Falklands’ government representative in London Sukey Cameron, who added Argentina continues with its campaign to claim sovereignty and disrupt the Falklands economy.

• Wednesday, June 15th 2011 - 02:38 UTC

  Argentina’s lessons from ‘dirty war’, apply today to Syria, said Ban Ki-moon

  

  United Nation Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged that the lessons learned from Argentina’s turn from dictatorship to democracy be applied widely, particularly in North Africa and the Middle East, and he called on Syria to allow humanitarian aid into areas affected by ongoing violence.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2011 - 22:39 UTC

  Humala reaffirms historic links: “Peru will always support Argentina”

  

  President-elect Ollanta Humala said Peru has shown “it will always support Argentina” and underlined the long standing close relations with the country that hosts one of the largest Peruvian communities overseas.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2011 - 22:08 UTC

  Iraq reconstruction 6.6bn USD are missing, says official US investigation

  

  Some 6.6bn US dollars flown into Iraq eight years ago may have been stolen, according to a US official investigating fraud in the country. The missing money may represent “the largest theft of funds in national history”, investigator Stuart Bowen told the Los Angeles Times newspaper.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2011 - 21:07 UTC

  Volcanic ash cloud forces the re-programming of Mercosur technical meeting

  

  The 83rd ordinary meeting of the Common Market Group in the framework of Mercosur and which was scheduled for this week has been re-programmed for June 16 and 17, because of the volcanic ash cloud that has disrupted normal air traffic.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2011 - 20:47 UTC

  EU/Mercosur trade talks are frozen on the “edge of the cliff”

  

  Trade talks between Mercosur and the European Union have been frozen on the “edge of the cliff” because of the European debt crisis, differences over agriculture subsidies and other crucial issues according to sources in Brazil from both sides.