Tag: Unasur

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 - 22:59 UTC

  The challenge of “breaking mental barriers” to promote Mercosur and Unasur

  

  Brazil’s influential Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim revealed that his major obstacle in his eight years in the post was “breaking mental barriers” particularly in advancing relations among countries in the South and promoting such organizations as Mercosur and Unasur.

• Thursday, November 18th 2010 - 02:31 UTC

  Mercosur and Unasur need an institutional framework to keep advancing

  

  Brazilian president-elect Dilma Rousseff must inject more life to the institutional strength of Mercosur and the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, and then push for integration with Central America and the Caribbean, said Marco Aurelio García, President Lula da Silva advisor on foreign affairs.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2010 - 16:08 UTC

  Lula da Silva and Vazquez candidates for Unasur secretary general chair

  

  Brazil’s Lula da Silva and former Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez are the most probable candidates for the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, secretary general chair, according to Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa. Ecuador currently holds the rotating presidency of Unasur.

• Friday, November 12th 2010 - 13:21 UTC

  Colombian Senate approves Unasur founding charter

  

  Ecuadorean Foreign Affairs minister Ricardo Patiño hailed the approval by the Colombian Senate of the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, charter which leaves the group one short of its legal constitution. The Uruguayan parliament is expected to follow suit in coming days.

• Friday, November 5th 2010 - 23:47 UTC

  Unasur presidential summit in Guyana November 26

  

  Colombia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay have still to ratify the founding charter and constitution of the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, which needs an additional vote to become legally effective.

• Saturday, October 30th 2010 - 06:39 UTC

  Lula da Silva’s name sounds strongly as next Unasur secretary general

  

  Following the death of former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner, the Union of South American Nations, Unasur must find a new consensus leader and the outstanding figure and possible candidate is Brazilian president Lula da Silva recognized as a great promoter of regional integration.

• Friday, October 1st 2010 - 05:53 UTC

  Unasur emergency summit in Buenos Aires in support of Correa and democracy

  

  The Union of South American Nations, UNASUR is holding an emergency summit in Buenos Aires to discuss the situation in Ecuador and express full support for President Rafael Correa, who was virtually kidnapped for hours by protesting members of the police force until freed by Army troops.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 05:07 UTC

  Unasur chairman Kirchner condemns FARC and its ‘pre-Cold War’ attitude

  

  UNASUR (Union of South American nations) Secretary General Nestor Kirchner currently in New York with the Argentine delegation for the United Nations General Assembly, said that the Colombian guerrilla FARC “are so back in time, that they are even far behind the Cold War”

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 17:52 UTC

  Kirchner praises Chilean Senate approval of Unasur Constitutive Treaty

  

  Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) Secretary-General, Néstor Kirchner, celebrated the Chilean Senate's approval of the regional organization's Constitutive Treaty and highlighted the “compromise” of Chile with the “unity of South America.”

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 17:43 UTC

  Mercosur and Unasur “more effective” for South America than OAS

  

  Mercosur and Unasur (Union of South American Nations) can be “more effective” than OAS (Organization of American States) in addressing issues of South American countries, said Brazilian Foreign Secretary Celso Amorim currently in Switzerland for a conference on international security.