Tag: TIAR

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  In support of Venezuela, Uruguay abandons the Rio Treaty

  

  Uruguay will leave the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR, also known as Rio Pact) due to an “obvious attempt” by the other signatories to use it to threaten Venezuela with the use of force, Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa said at a press conference in Montevideo on Tuesday.

• Thursday, September 12th 2019 - 22:37 UTC

  US unearths cold war inter-American defense treaty to warn Venezuela's military and political threats

  

  The government of Venezuela has denounced the US invocation of a Cold War-era mutual defense treaty on behalf of the opposition in Caracas, a move which clears the way for military intervention in the Latin American country.

• Saturday, July 27th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Maduro's Supreme Court annuls decision to rejoin regional defense treaty

  

  Venezuela's Supreme Court on Friday annulled a decision by the opposition-controlled legislature to re-join a regional defense treaty that could provide a legal framework for foreign military intervention.

• Thursday, October 11th 2012 - 05:58 UTC

  The Americas Defence ministers’ conference divided on Falklands/Malvinas issue

  

  Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands continues to generate discrepancies among countries of the Americas, as was exposed in the Declaration of Punta del Este, at the end of the X Conference of Defence Ministers of the Americas which took place in Uruguay.

• Wednesday, April 18th 2012 - 08:06 UTC

  Argentina’s Malvinas claim with no support statement from hemisphere defence ministers

  

  A preparatory meeting for a Ministers of Defence of the Americas Conference to be held in the second half of the year concluded in Montevideo with no inclusion of the Malvinas Islands dispute in the final declaration because of lack of agreement among the participants.

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 22:08 UTC

  Surinam and Santa Lucia apply to join President Chavez ALBA group

  

  Surinam and the Caribbean island of Santa Lucia are in the process of becoming full members of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of America, ALBA group, while Haiti has been nominated “standing invited member”.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2011 - 08:56 UTC

  Correa says OAS should have been disarticulated in 1982 when the Malvinas war

  

  Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa again questioned the existence of the Organization of American States, OAS, which should have been disarticulated in 1982 during the Falklands/Malvinas war and insisted that the region’s problems “should be discussed in the region and not in Washington”.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 22:03 UTC

  Unasur Defence Council has to protect the region’s vast and strategic resources

  

  The Union of South American Nations, Unasur, has among the objectives of the recently created South American Defence Council protecting the natural resources of the region which include 25% of the world’s drinking water and proven oil reserves estimated in 123 billion barrels of oil.

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 08:32 UTC

  Unasur ‘won’t collapse’ as happened with TIAR during the Malvinas war

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner praised the success of Unasur and forecasted that the South America Defence Council will be far more effective and robust than the previous experience with the TIAR, which “collapsed in 1982 during the Malvinas war”.