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Montevideo, January 24th 2025 - 06:30 UTC

Tag: Antonio Guterres

  • Monday, December 9th 2024 - 21:27 UTC

    UN Chief condemns massacre in Haiti

    Guterres also pressed Haiti's government to speed up the political transition

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres Monday condemned the slaughtering of over 180 people between Dec. 6 and 8 near Port-au-Prince after a gang leader was told that the victims, all or most of them aged over 60, had rendered a son of his ill through witchcraft.

  • Wednesday, October 30th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

    Guterres urges countries to prioritize nature over businesses

    “We must defend the people who defend nature,” Guterres stressed

    United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries to set aside their business models and prioritize nature, which is neither infinite nor free. He made those remarks in the Colombian city of Cali during his appearance at the Global Biodiversity Conference (COP 16).

  • Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 - 12:49 UTC

    Guterres becomes persona non grata in Israel

    Israel will continue to defend itself “with or without António Guterres,” Katz stressed

    United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was declared persona non grata Wednesday by Israel after failing to condemn Tuesday's rocket attack by Iran, Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced on X. The former Portuguese Prime Minister has thus been banned “from entering the country,” Katz explained.

  • Monday, September 30th 2024 - 09:26 UTC

    UN Secretary General, Tourism and Peace bring people together

    “Tourism and Peace”, the theme for World Tourism Day 2024.

    On September 27 World Tourism Day, Anotnio Guterres United Nations Secretary General released the following message, “Tourism brings people together. ”On this World Tourism Day, we reflect on the profound connection between tourism and peace”.

  • Friday, September 27th 2024 - 13:54 UTC

    Lacalle Pou tells UN to focus on Venezuela

    The international community should not tolerate Maduro's arbitrariness, Lacalle insisted

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Thursday urged the United Nations General Assembly in New York to pay attention to the Venezuelan crisis sparked by Nicolás Maduro's unsupported victory claims in the July 28 elections. “The time has come to act for Venezuela,” the National Party leader underlined.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 10:52 UTC

    Guterres urges Venezuelan authorities to be transparent regarding elections results

    The UN Secretary-General also hoped things would be resolved peacefully

    United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres urged the Venezuelan Government of President Nicolás Maduro to show “full transparency” regarding the outcome of Sunday's elections and “publish in due time the results and the breakdown by polling stations.”

  • Monday, June 24th 2024 - 09:40 UTC

    Lebanon should not become “another Gaza,” Guterres warns

    Any false move could trigger a conflict of unimaginable consequences, the UN Chief predicted

    United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world “cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza.” He made those remarks as tension and gunfire mounted between the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist organization and Israel. Guterres spoke of a “bellicose rhetoric” between both parties and insisted that one false move could trigger a catastrophe for the whole region and beyond.

  • Friday, May 3rd 2024 - 09:48 UTC

    World Press Freedom Day 2024: environmental journalism, an increasingly dangerous profession

    UN Chief Guterres, “Media freedom is under siege. And environmental journalism is an increasingly dangerous profession.”

    The world is going through an unprecedented environmental emergency which poses an existential threat to this and future generations. People need to know about this – and journalists and media workers have a key role in informing and educating them.

  • Monday, April 8th 2024 - 10:52 UTC

    International community repudiates Ecuador's attack on Mexican Embassy in Quito

    Guterres also called on Ecuador and Mexico to “resolve their differences by peaceful means”

    United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and the governments of many countries in the Americas condemned Ecuador's decision to break into Mexico's Embassy in Quito on Friday to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought asylum in the diplomatic mission as he faced corruption charges.

  • Tuesday, March 26th 2024 - 02:26 UTC

    Gaza: UN Security Council passes ceasefire resolution during Ramadan

    Guterres said that the resolution must be implemented on the ground and that the Council’s failure to do so “would be unforgivable”

    The United Nations (UN) Security Council passed Monday a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, it was reported from New York. It was the first time that none of the superpowers powers holding veto rights chose to exercise it.

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