Tag: Ban Ki-moon

• Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 22:06 UTC

  “We, Falklands are the only people who can say what we want for our future”, MLA Short tells the C24 committee

  

  A Falkland Islands lawmaker addressing the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, C24, in New York said that the political future of the Islands is not about the UK or Argentina, but rather the people of the Falklands, and “We are the only people who can say what we want for our future”.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2016 - 08:09 UTC

  Colombia and FARC are to sign bilateral and definitive ceasefire 23 June in Havana

  

  Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) reached an agreement on a bilateral and definitive ceasefire that will pave the way for a referendum on a peace deal between the warring parties, a senior FARC negotiator said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2016 - 07:09 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas issue: Malcorra promises to follow on Ban Ki-moon's steps

  

  Argentine foreign minister Susana Malcorra said on Tuesday that if elected as United Nations next Secretary General she will follow on Ban Ki-moon steps when it comes to the Falklands/Malvinas issue, and downplayed the fact of her nationality in reference to the dispute.

• Monday, June 6th 2016 - 07:31 UTC

  UK dilemma with Malcorra at the UN, “a candidate favoured by Washington”

  

  Britain is facing a diplomatic dilemma since it seems quite clear that the US administration of Barack Obama favours the Argentine candidate and current foreign affairs minister Susana Malcorra as the next UN Secretary General, according to an article published on the Sunday edition of The Telegraph and written by Peter Foster, Europe editor and Harriet Alexander, New York editor.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2016 - 08:40 UTC

  Ban Ki-moon emphasizes on the 'freely expressed will' for non-self-governing territories

  

  According to the UN charter the full measure of self-government of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories must be the result of the freely expressed will and desire of those peoples, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his message to the opening of the Pacific Regional Seminar on Decolonization, currently taking place in Managua, Nicaragua.

• Monday, May 16th 2016 - 05:20 UTC

  Malcorra's UN potential nomination sets off speculation about several names to replace her

  

  Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra manifest intention of becoming the first woman Secretary General of the United Nations, which has the support from president Mauricio Macri administration has set out domestic and international speculation.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2016 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentina prepared to support Malcorra's nomination to UN Secretary General post

  

  Argentina's foreign minister Susana Malcorra most probably will be sponsored by president Mauricio Macri as a candidate to replace the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who is stepping down next November, according to government sources quoted by La Nacion.

• Thursday, May 5th 2016 - 16:38 UTC

  UN highlights link between press freedom and development

  

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Message for 2016 - Human rights, democratic societies and sustainable development depend on the free flow of information. And the right to information depends on press freedom. Each year, we observe World Press Freedom Day to emphasize these fundamental principles, to protect the independence of the media and to honour media workers who risk and have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession.

• Saturday, April 23rd 2016 - 07:56 UTC

  Ban Ki moon message on Mother Earth Day 2016: Trees for the Earth

  

  This year, Earth Day coincides with the signing ceremony for the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which takes place at UN Headquarters in New York. The Agreement was adopted by all 196 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at COP21 in Paris on 12 December 2015.

• Saturday, April 23rd 2016 - 07:49 UTC

  Di Caprio addresses the UN on Earth Day and to celebrate the Paris Agreement

  

  This year, the United Nations has decided to celebrate Earth Day, 22 April, in a very special way, by signing the Paris Agreement: a landmark climate change accord that came out of negotiations at the COP21 climate summit in Paris last December. This, of course, was extremely great news for climate advocates and ambassadors all over the world, including Oscar-winning actor and UN Messenger of Peace, Leonardo Di Caprio.