Tag: Unasur Secretary General

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 05:25 UTC

  Unasur will attempt to name a Secretary General on Friday in New York

  

  South American foreign ministers are scheduled to meet next Friday in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly to decide the name of the next Unasur secretary general, according to an official release from the main office in Quito.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 10:31 UTC

  Colombia’s Mejía formally takes office as Unasur Secretary General

  

  Colombia’s former Foreign Minister, María Emma Mejía, was appointed Monday as the new Secretary General to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) in a ceremony in Georgetown hosted by Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo.

• Saturday, March 12th 2011 - 06:09 UTC

  Unasur splits two-year Secretary General post between Colombia and Venezuela

  

  Foreign Affairs ministers from the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, gathered in Ecuador Friday for their first meeting as a legally constituted organization agreed on the names to fill the post of Secretary General, vacant since the death of former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner.

• Friday, March 11th 2011 - 00:20 UTC

  Unasur becomes effective with a ministerial meeting in Quito

  

  Union of South American Nations Foreign Affairs ministers meet Friday in Quito to formally launch the group’s treaty and charter and begin discussions on a successor for deceased former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner who was the first Secretary General of Unasur.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2011 - 21:31 UTC

  Unasur HQ to be named after Nestor Kirchner; next Friday the official ceremony

  

  The permanent headquarters of Unasur, (Union of South American Nations) in Quito, Ecuador will be named after its first Secretary General, deceased Argentine former president Nestor Kirchner, the government of Ecuador officially announced Wednesday.