Tag: prosur

• Friday, January 28th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Paraguay takes over Prosur's pro-tempore Presidency

  

  Paraguay Thursday took over from Colombia the pro tempore Presidency of the Forum for the Progress and Integration of South America (Prosur), during a ceremony in Cartagena de Indias.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Paraguayan President to skip Prosur Summit due to COVID-19

  

  Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez Tuesday announced he shall not be attending the Forum for the Progress of South America (Prosur) because he continues to be down with COVID-19, but will participate in the event in a virtual manner.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Bolsonaro will join with other Amazon countries to set a common policy to protect the rainforest

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday he would meet with other South American countries to set common policy for defending the Amazon rain forest, while his foreign minister said Brazil should be seen as an environmental hero.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Chile begins formal proceedings to withdraw from Unasur

  

  The Chilean government has announced that it will begin proceedings to withdraw from the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the regional bloc from which it suspended its membership last year.

• Monday, March 25th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Bolsonaro: Brazil owes nothing to the world regarding the environment

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said his country “does not owe the world anything” when it comes to the environment. The far-right leader, who is critical of the Paris climate change accord, was speaking in Chile following Friday’s launch of the Forum for the Progress of South America (PROSUR), a conservative-minded group of South American leaders.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 07:31 UTC

  Seven countries have launched the Forum for Progress of South America

  

  South American countries on Friday launched the Forum for the Progress of South America (Prosur), a new regional bloc which seeks the “integration and strengthening of the region.”

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 21:13 UTC

  President of Uruguay criticizes Prosur for “generating another integration with ideological purpose”

  

  Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez questioned on Thursday the Colombian-Chilean initiative to create a new integration bloc to replace the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and argued that the region has a number of integration processes that collide and they become inefficient.