Tag: Palestine

Saturday, October 1st 2011 - 06:32 UTC
Abbas scheduled to visit Colombia after crucial support vote for Palestine

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas is scheduled to visit Colombia, a country which holds a non permanent seat at the UN Security Council and could cast a decisive vote for the recognition of a State of Palestine.
Saturday, September 24th 2011 - 21:50 UTC
Abbas anticipates long debate in Security Council on Palestine UN membership

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he expected the Security Council to finish debating his nation's application for full UN membership within weeks, not months.
Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 18:33 UTC
Argentine president at UN threatens to suspend Falklands’ air link with Chile

Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, CFK, threatened to review and suspend the Falklands/Malvinas air link with Chile, covered by the 14 July 1999 agreement, unless the UK abides by UN resolutions and begins talks with Argentina on disputed South Atlantic Islands’ sovereignty.
Monday, September 19th 2011 - 16:41 UTC
Brazil reiterates it will defend recognition of a Palestinian state at the UN

Brazil will ‘defend’ the recognition of a Palestinian state during the coming United Nations General Assembly discussions, said President Dilma Rousseff’s international affairs advisor Marco Aurelio García.
Saturday, September 17th 2011 - 05:05 UTC
Abbas reaffirms he will demand full UN membership for a Palestinian state

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Friday he would demand full membership of the United Nations when he goes to the UN General Assembly next week, setting up a diplomatic clash with Israel and the United States.
Monday, September 5th 2011 - 00:03 UTC
“An independent Palestine state counts with support from about 140 countries”

Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath said on Sunday that an estimated 140 countries will recognize an independent Palestine State in the United Nations at the end of the month when the international request is formally presented.
Thursday, September 1st 2011 - 02:00 UTC
Chile will support Palestine state in UN vote but abstains from boundaries controversy

Chile will support the recognition of Palestine as a state in the event Palestine applies for admission during the upcoming U.N. General Assembly in late September, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Alfredo Moreno, who met with 15 Congress members earlier this week.
Thursday, May 19th 2011 - 22:30 UTC
Netanyahu rejects Obama’s proposal of Palestinian state on 1967 borders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said US President Barack Obama vision of a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 could leave the Jewish state “indefensible”.
Wednesday, March 16th 2011 - 03:59 UTC
Uruguay recognizes Palestinian sovereign state and will open embassy in Ramallah

Uruguay announced on Tuesday it had recognized a Palestinian state, becoming the latest in a string of Latin American countries to make an endorsement in recent months the United States has called premature.
Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 01:08 UTC
Piñera presented with “Star of Palestine” honour; avoids pre-1967 borders controversy

Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera visited both sides of the hotly contested Israeli- Palestine border this weekend. He reasserted his support for an independent Palestinian state, but fell short of formally recognizing the pre-1967 borders.