Tag: Jose Miguel Insulza

• Monday, September 8th 2014 - 07:25 UTC

  Belize supports Uruguay's Almagro for OAS Secretary General next year

  

  Belize says it will support Uruguay for the position of secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS) and downplayed any suggestion that its non-support for the Guatemalan candidate was linked to the ongoing territorial dispute between the two countries.

• Saturday, August 9th 2014 - 05:58 UTC

  OAS observation mission will be present during Bolivia's October elections

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) and Bolivia signed on Friday the agreement on privileges and immunities for the Electoral Observation Mission, (EOM) to be deployed to the general elections to be held in Bolivia on 12 October.

• Wednesday, July 2nd 2014 - 08:00 UTC

  Uruguay presents Foreign minister Almagro as OAS Secretary General candidate

  

  Uruguay has presented the candidacy of its current Foreign minister Luis Almagro to succeed Jose Miguel Insulza as head of the Organization of American States, OAS Secretary General, it was reported on Tuesday from Montevideo.

• Tuesday, July 1st 2014 - 07:21 UTC

  Kicillof will talk about Argentina's debt case before OAS foreign ministers

  

  The OAS Permanent Council, responding to an Argentine request, agreed to convene a Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, July 3 the headquarters of the OAS in Washington DC to discuss “Sovereign Debt Restructuring: The Case of Argentina and its Systemic Consequences.”

• Monday, June 16th 2014 - 07:22 UTC

  OAS congratulates Santos and underlines the democratic process in Colombia

  

  OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, congratulated Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his re-election with an absolute majority of votes cast, which gives him a decisive popular mandate.

• Friday, June 13th 2014 - 08:23 UTC

  OAS deploys 74 observers for Colombia's presidential election second round

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) Electoral Observation Mission (EOM ) began the final deployment of observers ahead of the second round of the Colombian presidential election on Sunday June 15.

• Friday, June 6th 2014 - 07:40 UTC

  Malvinas OAS resolution calls for resumption of UK/Argentina negotiations on sovereignty

  

  The Organization of American States, OAS, annual assembly unanimously approved on Thursday a resolution on the Malvinas Islands calling on Argentina and the UK to resume negotiations regarding the sovereignty dispute.

• Saturday, May 24th 2014 - 10:31 UTC

  All is ready for the OAS General Assembly in Paraguay, June 3 to 5

  

  The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved the submission of several draft resolutions to the General Assembly of the institution, which will take place from June 3 to 5 in Asunción, Paraguay.

• Friday, May 16th 2014 - 10:17 UTC

  Mujica calls on countries to leave aside individual interests and address global problems

  

  The President of Uruguay, José Mujica called on countries to put aside individual interests, address global problems such as climate change, and give more decision-making power to international organizations. Mujica is on a four day visit to Washington and on Thursday visited the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States, OAS.

• Thursday, April 17th 2014 - 22:09 UTC

  OAS Secretary General Insulza: “García Márquez Raised Latin American Literature to Global Heights”

  

  José Miguel Insulza, today expressed his “deep sorrow over the death of Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian and Latin American author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, primordial figure of the most prolific and brilliant generation of authors our continent has ever seen, who raised the literature of Latin America to global heights.”