Tag: UN Security Council

• Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 00:19 UTC

  Uruguay willing to compensate alleged Haitian gang-raped victim

  

  Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has apologised to his Haitian counterpart Michel Martelly over the alleged rape of an 18-year-old Haitian man by Uruguayan UN peacekeeping troops in the poor Caribbean state.

• Friday, July 1st 2011 - 01:48 UTC

  Brazil and Japan allege over 100 countries support UN Security Council reform

  

  Foreign Affairs ministers from Brazil and Japan announced that over 100 nations have expressed support for a proposal to expand the United Nations Security Council.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 17:44 UTC

  Argentina reaffirms Malvinas sovereignty rights; invites UK to “good faith” negotiations

  

  Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman addressing the United Nations Decolonisation Committee reiterated Argentina’s “unrenounceable and imprescriptible” sovereignty rights over the Malvinas Islands and extended a “formal invitation” to the British government “to sit to a table and resume, in good faith, negotiations” to solve the long standing dispute.

• Thursday, June 9th 2011 - 01:58 UTC

  UK supports Ban Ki-moon for second mandate as UN Secretary General

  

  United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Wednesday his support for Ban Ki-moon's candidacy for a second term as Secretary General of the United Nations. Ban Ki-moon announced his candidacy for re-election on Monday. His first term ends on 31 December 2011.

• Thursday, April 14th 2011 - 05:16 UTC

  Libya and global financial system reform in BRICS’ international agenda

  

  Leaders of the world's major emerging powers will meet again Thursday in China to tackle the conflict in Libya, reform of the international financial system and look at how developing nations can exercise more clout on the global stage.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 - 02:54 UTC

  South American countries divided over allied bombings of Libya

  

  Several South American countries are demanding an immediate cease fire in Libya and questioning the intensity and extensive bombing by an alliance of NATO strike forces of several cities under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’ control.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 08:44 UTC

  Attacks on Libya causing divisions among coalition members

  

  The international military campaign in Libya has created apparent divisions between coalition leaders carrying out the UN-sanctioned operation and other world powers.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 08:36 UTC

  For a third night international military coalition bombs Tripoli

  

  Loud explosions have rocked the Libyan capital, Tripoli, for a third night as forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi attempt to stop any new attack from an international military coalition enforcing a no-fly zone over the country, Al Jazeera reports.

• Wednesday, March 16th 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  Gaddafi ever more confident he can defeat Benghazi ‘dogs and traitors’

  

  Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi appeared at a Tuesday evening rally in a huge tent in Tripoli, condemning the rebels as rats, dogs, hypocrites and traitors. As he spoke, thousands gathered in a Benghazi square denouncing him as a tyrant and throwing shoes and other objects at his image projected upside down on a wall.

• Saturday, March 12th 2011 - 23:26 UTC

  Arab League calls on UN Security Council for a no-fly zone over Libya

  

  The Arab League threw its support behind calls for a no-fly zone over Libya on Saturday as the Libyan military closed in on the opposition. The League urged on Saturday the United Nations to close Libyan airspace, as forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi continued using war planes to bombard the country's rebels.