Tag: sovereignty

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.
Tuesday, February 8th 2011 - 20:00 UTC
US, China and EU recognize and welcome the new nation of South Sudan

United States, China and the European Union announced they would recognize south Sudan as the world’s newest nation. President Barack Obama went further and rewarded north Sudan for its cooperation by taking it off a terrorism blacklist.
Sunday, January 30th 2011 - 19:04 UTC
Palestine President Welcomes Paraguay’s Recognition

Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmoud Abbas has welcomed Paraguay's recognition of a free and independent Palestinian state in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.
Tuesday, January 25th 2011 - 01:38 UTC
Peru Recognises Palestine as a State

Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde meeting with the representative of the Palestine National government recognised Palestine as an “independent and sovereign state,” reported the Peruvian state news agency Andina.
Monday, January 17th 2011 - 13:55 UTC
Government of Guyana Recognize the State of Palestine

“It is Guyana's hope that the increasing recognition of the state of Palestine will contribute to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the creation of lasting peace and stability in the region,” the foreign ministry said in a statement last week.
Friday, January 7th 2011 - 21:10 UTC
Chile recognized Palestine as an independent state

Chile has recognized Palestine as an independent state, Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno said Friday, following in the footsteps of several other Latin American countries.
Sunday, November 21st 2010 - 21:09 UTC
Garré claims Malvinas sovereignty during ceremony at South African vessel

Argentina claimed sovereignty over the Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands and criticized UK’s unilateral actions in fisheries and hydrocarbons during the signing on Saturday of a defence cooperation and development agreement with South Africa.
Sunday, November 21st 2010 - 21:03 UTC
Brazil recognizes Argentine sovereignty over South Georgia and South Sandwich islands

Brazil has always recognized Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands but was reluctant to include South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands however that is over, according to a top official from the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Tuesday, November 9th 2010 - 04:10 UTC
Getting around sovereignty

By Roberto Cox (*) - Few people in Argentina, or Britain for that matter, are aware that in the years leading up to the war that was fought over the possession of the Islands that Argentina calls the Malvinas and Britain the Falklands, the British government was trying to integrate them with the mainland. Out of deference to the islanders — the Kelpers as they are called — I will not be so bold as to write that Britain was intent on giving the islands and their inhabitants to Argentina, but that was the general idea.
Friday, August 27th 2010 - 08:25 UTC
Malvinas: Argentina working for more than “a gesture of support” from Unasur

Argentina is working with Unasur (Union of South American Nations) so that in the future the South American forum offers more than “a gesture of support” to Argentina’s claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands and helps bring the United Kingdom to the sovereignty negotiations table, said Argentine ambassador before United Nations, Jorge Argüello.