Tag: Geneva

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:55 UTC

  Detractor of Falklands people's rights, Argentina's candidate to the International Law Court of The Hague

  

  Dr. Marcelo Kohen is an Argentine lawyer who for more than three decades has been living in Switzerland where he is a professor of International Law at the University Institute of International High Studies in Geneva, He is also currently secretary of the prestigious International Law Institute created in 1843.

• Thursday, June 17th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Ambassadors back to Moscow and Washington is main outcome of Biden-Putin Summit in Geneva

  

  US and Russia's Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joseph Biden have agreed that the two countries’ ambassadors will return to their workplaces in Moscow and in Washington in what became the most significant announcement after Wednesday's summit in Geneva.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  World sets eyes on Biden-Putin meeting in Geneva

  

  The world will virtually stop Wednesday at least for five hours when US President Joseph Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin meet in Geneva at a time when ties between the two countries are approaching Cold War lows.

• Thursday, March 18th 2021 - 20:28 UTC

  UK, Argentina and the Falklands signed an agreement for the second phase to identify soldiers fallen in 1982

  

  The governments of the United Kingdom, the Falkland Islands and Argentina agreed on Thursday to carry out a new stage of the Humanitarian Project Plan that began in 2017 and has allowed the identification of 115 Argentine soldiers fallen during the 1982 armed conflict. The agreement was signed at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, Switzerland and the Plan will be resumed in August, as confirmed by the British Embassy in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Talks in Geneva for further remains identifications at the Falklands' Argentine military cemetery

  

  Argentina and the United Kingdom are holding talks in Geneva, with the International Red Cross for a new agreement on the identification of soldiers' remains in the Argentine Memorial cemetery at Darwin in the Falkland Islands, where there is still at least one grave with uncertainty as to the name/names of who are buried.

• Saturday, December 15th 2018 - 09:34 UTC

  UN forecasts 2 million Venezuelans will emigrate in 2019

  

  Around two million more Venezuelans are expected to flee their country during 2019, according to a United Nations forecast released Friday in Geneva. If true, the total number of Venezuelan migrants could reach 5.3 million a year from now.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2018 - 07:47 UTC

  Argentina, Japan and EU supporting US drive for greater transparency at WTO

  

  Argentina, Costa Rica, Japan and the European Union are supporting a U.S. drive to enforce greater transparency and discipline at the World Trade Organization, an updated proposal published by the WTO showed on Friday.

• Thursday, October 11th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Conditions in Venezuelan prisons are “beyond monstrous” claims UN human rights office

  

  Conditions in Venezuela’s prisons are “beyond monstrous”, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said, before calling for an independent and transparent investigation into the death of a leading political opponent of the Government. Issuing the alert in Geneva, OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said that there were specific concerns for the well-being of 59 Colombian nationals, who’ve been held for more than two years without being charged.

• Monday, October 8th 2018 - 16:36 UTC

  UNHCR calls “monumental crisis” the migration of Venezuelans

  

  The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, made a visit to the Colombian-Venezuelan border to understand the dimensions of the exodus of Venezuelans that, according to the UN statistics, 1.9 million have left Venezuela since 2015 due the Venezuela's economic and social situation.

• Thursday, March 8th 2018 - 18:51 UTC

  Venezuela: close to fraudulent elections

  

  Venezuela's National Assembly, with opposition majority, denounced on Wednesday the “undue” use of electoral material, noting that official papers that belongs to the National Electoral Council (CNE) was found in gambling centers to print bet vouchers and presented its final report about the investigation into the case of the ex-rebel agent, Oscar Pérez.