Tag: Roberta Jacobson

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2013 - 01:55 UTC

  Venezuela warns it will react to any US sanctions or meddling in internal affairs

  

  Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said on Monday that Venezuela will resort to “trade, energy, economic and political” measures if the United States applies sanctions or keeps meddling in the internal affairs of the country.

• Thursday, March 21st 2013 - 06:30 UTC

  Venezuela plays the ‘US interference card’ suspends dialogue with Washington

  

  The Venezuelan government said on Wednesday it has suspended a “channel of communications” with Washington as it escalates tension and polarizes public opinion ahead of elections to replace the late president Hugo Chavez.

• Tuesday, January 15th 2013 - 06:53 UTC

  US waiting for Venezuela situation to ‘clear up’; insists constitution must be complied

  

  United States and other Latinamerican countries wish the situation in Venezuela ‘clears up’, said Roberta S. Jacobson Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, currently in Spain as part of a visit that also includes the UK and Belgium.

• Friday, October 19th 2012 - 00:02 UTC

  Obama administration admits trade, security and migration as pending issues with Latam

  

  President Barak Obama ends his four years in January with free trade and security, particularly in Central America, as pending issues to develop in Latin America, said Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jackson in a press round with foreign correspondents.

• Thursday, July 12th 2012 - 07:05 UTC

  Washington says Paraguay should not be suspended from OAS and calls for regional unity

  

  Paraguay should not be suspended from the Organization of American States, OAS, despite the removal of President Fernando Lugo, said on Wednesday Roberta Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

• Wednesday, May 30th 2012 - 17:05 UTC

  Hillary Clinton will miss next week’s OAS General Assembly in Bolivia

  

  OAS secretary general Jose Miguel Insulza believes US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will miss the Organization of American States General Assembly because of “agenda problems” and not over discrepancies on the issues to the addressed.

• Friday, February 10th 2012 - 01:17 UTC

  US/Argentina discuss bilateral relation and regional democratic stability

  

  Stability, governance and democratic safeguard were among the issues addressed by US Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson and Argentina’s Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman during her first day of activity in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, February 10th 2012 - 00:56 UTC

  State Department ratifies Falklands’ dispute is a bilateral Argentina/UK issue

  

  United States insisted that the Falklands/Malvinas dispute is a ‘bilateral’ issue between Argentina and the UK and again called on Buenos Aires and London to solve the issue peacefully, through dialogue.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 22:14 UTC

  US diplomacy reiterates Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty is a bilateral issue

  

  The US Acting Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Roberta Jacobson, ratified the Obama administration’s standing on the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty issue, which urges Argentina and the United Kingdom to find a diplomatic exit to the matter.

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 10:44 UTC

  Top US official for Latinamerica scheduled to visit Peru and Argentina

  

  US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta S. Jacobson travels this week to Peru and Argentina to meet with government, business, and civil society members in these key regional partners.