Tag: Security Council

• Friday, July 15th 2022 - 22:03 UTC

  De Roux delivers final report on Colombia's civil war to UN Security Council

  

  Colombian Jesuit priest Francisco de Roux, who chairs the country's Truth Committee stemming from the peace agreement with former guerrilla fighters, Thursday appeared before the United Nations Security Council to deliver his team's final report.

• Wednesday, April 27th 2022 - 08:43 UTC

  UN General Assembly passes resolution requiring disclosing of rationale behind veto use

  

  Russia's invasion of Ukraine is bringing on some changes regarding world affairs and the United Nations Tuesday agreed to redefine the Security Council veto power, which is in the hands of the body's permanent members, which are also the ones with a stronger military might — the US, Russia, China, the UK, and France.

• Thursday, November 21st 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  EU Security Council members and Vatican question US decision on Israeli settlements

  

  European members of the UN Security Council hit out on Wednesday at the US decision to no longer consider Israeli settlements illegal but stopped short of naming the United States. The Vatican also expressed that the search for peace between Israelis had been put at risk.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:53 UTC

  UN chief warns of 'unprecedented threat' from intolerance extremism and terrorism

  

  United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday that the world is facing “an unprecedented threat from intolerance, violent extremism and terrorism” that affects every country, exacerbating conflicts and destabilizing entire regions.

• Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 01:14 UTC

  Uruguay’s Chancellor on Venezuela: “We have a problem and it is the attitude of Luis Almagro”

  

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, ratified his position on Friday on a peaceful solution to the political and institutional crisis suffered by Venezuela along with his Italian counterpart, Enzo Moavero Milanesi in Montevideo. The Uruguayan chancellor questioned the attitude of the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, considering that he took sides on the Venezuelan conflict.

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 20:02 UTC

  USA at the UN: Countries should support transition in Venezuela; Russia denounces interventionist acts

  

  The Security Council convened by the United States this Saturday to discuss the institutional and political crisis that Venezuela is experiencing has been lifted this afternoon. With a strongly polarized participation, the bloc that supports the transitional government of Juan Guaidó with the US at the head, faced the block that recognizes as legitimate the regime of Nicolás Maduro, headed by Russia and China. Latin American countries also expressed their positions, describing the case as a crisis that directly affects the region.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 19:52 UTC

  Support for Saudi Arabia's rejection of UN Security Council seat

  

  Saudi Arabia's Gulf Arab allies and Egypt have applauded its decision to reject a UN Security Council seat in protest at the world body's failure to act on Syria, whose leader is backed by Russia and Shi'ite Iran.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 - 23:35 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez flies to G-20 in Russia on Tango 01, but changes aircraft in Morocco

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández left on Tuesday for Russia to attend the G20 summit to begin next Thursday at the Constantine Palace in Saint Petersburg. The president flew on her office’s Tango 01 to Morocco where she changed aircraft to avoid any possible injunction from hedge funds on the presidential transport.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 08:43 UTC

  Obama tells Palestinians UN is not a short cut to negotiations with Israel

  

  US President Barack Obama told the United Nations that the Palestinians deserved a state of their own, but that this would only be achieved through talks with Israel.

• Saturday, June 18th 2011 - 08:00 UTC

  Security Council recommends Bank Ki-moon be appointed for a second term

  

  The Security Council announced Friday that it is recommending to the General Assembly that Ban Ki-moon be appointed to a second consecutive term as Secretary-General of the United Nations.