Tag: Organization of Americas States, OAS

• Monday, November 25th 2024 - 08:40 UTC

  Paraguayan FM seeks top OAS position

  

  Paraguay's Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano has become a strong contender to replace the Uruguayan Diego Almagro as Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS) following talks with US President-elect Donald Trump and his future aide Elon Musk, it was reported through X.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:38 UTC

  OAS Electoral Observation mission making preliminary visit to the Dominican Republic

  

  A technical team of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the municipal elections in the Dominican Republic will make a preliminary visit to the country between January 21 and 25.

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 18:07 UTC

  OAS identified “serious irregularities” and “clear manipulations”, questioning president Morales victory

  

  The Organization of American States recommended on Sunday that Bolivia hold a new election after it identified “serious” irregularities in the voting system in a report that called into question the victory of President Evo Morales.

• Thursday, November 7th 2019 - 11:19 UTC

  OAS Electoral Observation Mission in Bolivia condemns violence and urges calm

  

  The Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Bolivia on Wednesday, strongly condemned the acts of violence that have been recorded in various parts of the country over the last days and made an urgent call for calm.

• Monday, May 13th 2019 - 13:18 UTC

  Belize votes to take Guatemala's territorial claim to the International court of Justice

  

  Belizeans have voted to ask the United Nations world court to decide Guatemala’s claim that it is the rightful owner of half of Belize’s territory, setting the scene for a resolution to a dispute that has rumbled on for centuries.

• Monday, June 11th 2018 - 07:28 UTC

  Argentina/Falklands “constructive spirit” will be tested at the UN C24 presentations

  

  The constructive spirit and pragmatic attitude towards Argentina/United Kingdom relations and shared interests seems to have spilled positively to international forae, for example the latest OAS general assembly declaration regarding the Malvinas Islands, which does not mention “militarization of the South Atlantic or nuclear arms”, as was common in the Kirchner couple years, and rather keeps to the traditional annual disputed sovereignty claim under the umbrella of the United Nations.

• Tuesday, June 5th 2018 - 07:35 UTC

  Vice-president Pence to address the Venezuelan question in Brazil and Ecuador

  

  United States Vice-President Mike Pence will travel to Brazil and Ecuador at the end of June in an effort to strengthen trade and security ties with countries grappling with growing numbers of refugees fleeing Venezuela’s economic crisis, his spokeswoman said on Monday.

• Saturday, May 12th 2018 - 06:35 UTC

  Uruguay ratifies Inter-American Convention against All Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance

  

  Uruguay on Friday deposited at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington DC, the instrument of ratification of the Inter-American Convention against all Forms of Discrimination and Intolerance, becoming the first state to ratify it. Uruguay is also the only one that has ratified all the binding legal instruments of the inter-American system.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 07:58 UTC

  All is ready for Paraguay Sunday's presidential election

  

  Former Costa Rican president Laura Chinchilla began this week her activities as head of the Organization of American States (OAS) mission that will observe Paraguay’s April 22 elections. During an event at Paraguay’s TSJE electoral court, Chinchilla and the president of the TSJE, Jaime Bestard, signed an agreement establishing the terms of the mission, which will include 39 observers from 14 countries.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2018 - 07:50 UTC

  OAS mission will observe the Mexican elections of July first

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) and Mexico signed an agreement on the privileges and immunities of the Mission of Foreign Visitors that will observe the July first federal and local elections.