Tag: C24

• Wednesday, December 18th 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  UN Decolonization Committee C24 on a visiting mission to Montserrat

  

  The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, currently chaired by Keisha Aniya McGuire (Grenada), is on a visiting mission to the Caribbean island of Montserrat until Friday 20 December, while also holding meetings in Antigua and Barbuda.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 11:18 UTC

  Argentina with a multi-party delegation to claim the Falklands at the C24 meeting

  

  It's an election year in Argentina so a pluralistic delegation will be travelling to New York to make the country's annual claim over the Falkland Islands sovereignty before the United Nations Decolonization Committee, next Tuesday, according to reports in the Buenos Aires media.

• Friday, April 19th 2019 - 09:21 UTC

  Falklands' delegation to UN conference will take two community representatives as advisors

  

  The elected government of the Falkland Islands is inviting two members from the community to accompany the official delegation to the UN Special Committee on Decolonization or C24, next June, as representatives of the Islands.

• Friday, June 22nd 2018 - 09:02 UTC

  Malvinas question dispute: new phase in Argentina/UK relations will create favorable conditions

  

  Foreign minister Jorge Faurie reiterated before the United Nations Decolonization Committee or C24, that Argentina wishes to establish a dialogue with the UK to solve the Malvinas Islands dispute, and underlined he believed that “favorable conditions” for such a scenario have been created and are advancing.

• Thursday, June 21st 2018 - 14:38 UTC

  “The Argentine claim to our Falkland Islands is unfounded and unwelcome”

  

  ”We have a right to live in peace, in freedom and to determine our own future”. “We have a right to live in peace, we have a right to our freedom and above all we have a right to determine our own future”, Falkland Islands elected lawmaker, MLA Ian Hansen told the United Nations decolonization committee or C24 on Wednesday, in New York.

• Monday, June 18th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Falklands' lawmakers ready for a robust presentation before C24

  

  Falkland Islands lawmakers have pledged that their presentations before the United Nations Decolonization Committee or C 24 this year in New York will be as robust as ever, despite the improvement of relations between Argentina and the United Kingdom.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2018 - 09:02 UTC

  New Spanish government surprises Gibraltar at C24 calling for bilateral talks with UK

  

  Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told the United Nations on Monday that Gibraltar was ready to work with Spain’s new Socialist government for the mutual benefit of citizens on both sides of the border. This, he underscored, did not deviate from Gibraltar’s cast-iron position on sovereignty and the principle of self-determination.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2013 - 02:40 UTC

  Falklands at C24: ‘Alejandro Betts misrepresents’, says Professor Willets

  

  Mr. Alejandro Betts spoke on 20 June this year at the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation, as a petitioner on the “Falklands (Malvinas) Question.” It has been brought to my attention that his speech included a highly distorted account of my visit to the Islands to observe the referendum on behalf of the South Atlantic Council.

• Saturday, May 25th 2013 - 05:34 UTC

  Falkland Islands elected lawmaker will attend C24 regional seminar in Ecuador

  

  Falkland Islands elected lawmaker Mike Summers will attend next week the Caribbean Regional Seminar of the Special Committee on Decolonization which is to be held in Quito, Ecuador in anticipation of the main C24 annual meeting in New York.

• Wednesday, December 12th 2012 - 07:47 UTC

  Young Falkland Islanders take part at the 5th Commonwealth Youth Parliament in London

  

  Falkland Islander Krysteen Ormond (23) has completed the Commonwealth Youth Parliament 2012 with her interest in politics augmented and urges other young people to take advantage of the experience if the chance arises.