Tag: UN General Assembly

• Friday, November 30th 2012 - 22:32 UTC

  Solid Latam support for Palestine ‘observer status’ vote at the UN

  

  Latinamerican countries most of which recognize Palestine as a free and sovereign state, helped this week with their votes to elevate the status of the Palestine Authority to “non member observer” which was approved this week by an overwhelming majority of the UN General Assembly.

• Saturday, November 24th 2012 - 15:34 UTC

  Argentina insists with Malvinas during UN ceremony with Ban Ki-moon

  

  Argentina is strongly committed with multilateralism and trusts in the UN to reach a fair, peaceful and long lasting solution to the sovereignty dispute in the Malvinas issue, said Ambassador Maria Cristina Perceval during her Friday credentials presentation ceremony with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

• Monday, November 19th 2012 - 11:24 UTC

  UN consensus decision confirms Spain formally abandons Gibraltar trilateral process

  

  Spain’s decision to pull out of the trilateral process was formally recorded in the consensus decision on Gibraltar adopted by the United Nations General Assembly this year.

• Friday, October 19th 2012 - 17:29 UTC

  UK sees Security Council with “no appetite” to address Falklands/Malvinas issue

  

  The United Kingdom said it did not see ‘any appetite’ from the UN Security Council members to address the Falklands/Malvinas issue, following the election of Argentina as one of the five new non permanent members to the council on Thursday.

• Tuesday, September 25th 2012 - 04:17 UTC

  Billionaire Soros meets Cristina Fernandez and exchange ideas of world affairs

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández met on Monday with billionaire investor George Soros at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York, before her speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. The meeting was held on an “open agenda” and lasted for an hour.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 20:07 UTC

  Paraguay will expose its dispute with Mercosur before the UN General Assembly

  

  Paraguay plans to publicly denounce before the United Nations General Assembly that Venezuela’s incorporation to Mercosur is illegal and so is the temporary suspension imposed on the country by the trade block, anticipated President Federico Franco.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 06:47 UTC

  Rousseff opens round of UN speeches and will calls for sustainable development

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff arrived Sunday in New York and on Tuesday, as is traditional, will open the round of speeches at the annual UN General Assembly and will later meet with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and president of the Assembly Vuk Jeremic from Serbia.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 03:01 UTC

  Mercosur dispute reaches UN: Paraguay informs political events to Ban Ki-moon

  

  Paraguayan president Federico Franco explained to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon the current political situation of the country which emerged from the impeachment by the Senate of Fernando Lugo and his removal from the Executive office by an overwhelming majority, decision the ousted leader had accepted.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2012 - 05:32 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez off to the UN General Assembly to claim Malvinas sovereignty

  

  President Cristina Fernandez leaves this weekend for New York to attend the UN General Assembly where two of the main issues of the Argentine agenda will be the Malvinas Islands claim and AMIA, the terrorist attack on an Argentine Jewish institution in which allegedly Iran could have been involved.

• Thursday, September 20th 2012 - 23:30 UTC

  Cuba prepares for the annual UN General Assembly round clash with the US

  

  Both the United States and Cuba would benefit if Washington would lift its longstanding trade embargo against the island, but US President Barack Obama has toughened the sanctions since taking office in 2009, a top Cuban official said.