Tag: Jose Miguel Insulza

• Tuesday, May 18th 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Bolivian Minister lashes out at Chilean senator for comments regarding railroad test

  

  Bolivia's Minister of Public Works, Édgar Montaño, Monday rated Chilean senator José Miguel Insulza's comments urging to resume the test of the La Paz-Arica railroad as “irresponsible.”

• Thursday, November 24th 2016 - 07:55 UTC

  Ex OAS head plans to seek Chile's Socialist nomination for 2017 presidential election

  

  Former OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza said on Wednesday that he plans to seek the Socialist Party's nomination for president of Chile. “I come to confirm that I am available to participate in the decisions of the Socialist Party,” he told reporters at the party's Santiago headquarters just hours after resigning as Chile's agent in litigation with Bolivia before the International Court of Justice.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2015 - 05:13 UTC

  Almagro as new OAS chief pledges to end fragmentation and to work with all countries

  

  The former Foreign Minister of Uruguay Luis Almagro Lemes took office on Tuesday as Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) during a meeting of the Permanent Council at the headquarters of the Organization in Washington, DC.

• Tuesday, May 26th 2015 - 06:03 UTC

  Belize and Guatemala en route to solve territorial dispute sponsored by OAS

  

  Belize and Guatemala signed on Monday the Protocol to the Special Agreement which will allow the governments of both nations to separately hold public consultations with a view to submitting their territorial dispute to the International Court of Justice.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2015 - 02:16 UTC

  UK commends Guyana's elections and pledges support for President Granger

  

  The United Kingdom congratulated Guyana for last week's general election and promised to continue working with the new government of David Granger to build on the strong and long-standing relationship between the two countries.

• Saturday, April 11th 2015 - 06:25 UTC

  Obama and Raul Castro shook hands at opening of the Americas summit in Panama

  

  US President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro on Friday shook hands and sat near each other at the historic Panama Summit of the Americas, a new milestone in efforts to shed decades of animosity. Obama and Castro greeted each other as UN chief Ban Ki-moon looked on, before taking their seats with other regional leaders at a Panama City convention center.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 11:47 UTC

  OAS General Assembly to be held in Washington following Haiti's declination

  

  The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) decided on Monday to hold the 45th meeting of its General Assembly on June 15/16 at its headquarters in Washington, DC, after Haiti declined to host the event.

• Thursday, March 19th 2015 - 08:33 UTC

  Almagro pledges an end to OAS fragmentation and a hemisphere without exclusions

  

  Uruguay's former Foreign minister Luis Almagro was elected on Wednesday by the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) as Secretary General for the next five years, during the XLIX Special General Assembly held at the OAS headquarters in Washington DC.

• Saturday, February 21st 2015 - 04:56 UTC

  OAS Inzulza calls for an end to the polarization spiral in Venezuela

  

  Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), said on Friday that “the detention of the Mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, has caused alarm due to the way in which it took place and because it deals with an elected leader exercising his duties.”

• Wednesday, February 18th 2015 - 23:06 UTC

  OAS Secretary General hopeful meets with Insulza and Permanent Council chair Badrising

  

  The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met on Wednesday with the only current candidate to succeed him in office, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Luis Almagro, at the headquarters of the Organization in Washington, DC.