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Montevideo, May 30th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

Tag: United Nations General Assembly

  • Friday, September 27th 2024 - 13:54 UTC

    Lacalle Pou tells UN to focus on Venezuela

    The international community should not tolerate Maduro's arbitrariness, Lacalle insisted

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Thursday urged the United Nations General Assembly in New York to pay attention to the Venezuelan crisis sparked by Nicolás Maduro's unsupported victory claims in the July 28 elections. “The time has come to act for Venezuela,” the National Party leader underlined.

  • Tuesday, September 24th 2024 - 20:43 UTC

    Lula wants permanent UN Security Council seats for Africa and Latin America

    The absence of Africa and Latin America from the UN's Security Council is a remnant of colonialist practices, Lula underlined

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Tuesday opened the 79th United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York with a speech focused on the Security Council's shortcomings in the face of recent global events and called for a permanent seat on the body for Latin America as well as for Africa while insisting that such an omission was “an unacceptable echo of the domination practices of the colonial past.” Today, only the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom are permanent members, and all of them have veto powers.

  • Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 09:44 UTC

    Argentine president insists the world needs more equality

    “The global financial architecture only serves to concentrate income and to marginalize vast regions of the world,” Fernández said

    In his last appearance before the United Nations General Assembly, Argentine President Alberto Fernández, who will be leaving office comes Dec. 10, Tuesday called for a change in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) by-laws and and urged greater global equality.

  • Tuesday, June 26th 2018 - 09:27 UTC

    UN message on the International Day against drug abuse

    “There are no easy solutions. But my own experience reinforces my strong conviction that we can chart a better path to counter the world drug problem.”

    Drug challenges are among the most complex problems we face, with wide-ranging impacts on health and well-being, families and communities, security and sustainable development.

  • Wednesday, June 6th 2018 - 09:19 UTC

    UN General Assembly next president a woman: Ecuadorean foreign minister

    Ms. Espinosa had served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Minister of Defense, and Coordinating Minister of Cultural and Natural Heritage.

    The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday elected Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, president of its upcoming 73rd session, becoming the only fourth woman to hold that position in the history of the world body and the first since 2006.

  • Tuesday, September 19th 2017 - 08:37 UTC

    Trump's first address to the UN Assembly: all countries will be listening

    Trump will call on U.N. members Tuesday to confront Pyongyang over its nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile programs

    United States President Donald Trump, in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, will harshly criticize North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. “He will speak in extremely tough terms about the North Korean menace and the threat it poses to our security and the security of all the nations in that room,” according to a senior White House official who gave reporters a preview of the address.

  • Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 07:15 UTC

    Macri downplays chat with May, “it was no formal meeting”, just “a nice gesture from the prime minister”

    “You can't convert a chat of less than a minute in an official encounter”, Macri told the Argentine media and insisted it was “essential to lower the level of anxiety”

    Argentine president Mauricio Macri on Wednesday downplayed the chat with PM Theresa May on Tuesday at the UN banquet in New York saying it was “no formal or official meeting”, but nevertheless underlined the “good predisposition” for dialogue which Argentina had lost during the last twelve years and anticipated that the Falklands/Malvinas Islands question “will demand many years”.

  • Wednesday, September 21st 2016 - 09:37 UTC

    Non communicable diseases make poverty even worse, Uruguayan president tells UN

    These diseases are related to four risk factors of modern lifestyle: smoking, alcoholism, unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle, said President Tabaré Vázquez

    Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Uruguay’s President Tabare Vazquez on Tuesday warned against non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular ailments, cancer, diabetes and chronic pulmonary pathologies, which he said are the main causes of death particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

  • Wednesday, September 21st 2016 - 09:31 UTC

    Obama blasts those who build walls fuelled by nationalism, sectarian hatred and economic inequality

    “A nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself,” Mr. Obama said of the protectionist impulse to resist the forces of global integration.

    In his final address to the United Nations General Assembly as United States President, Barack Obamae on Tuesday delivered a stinging rebuke of those who would build walls, a message aimed at foreign leaders who he said had fueled rising nationalism, sectarian hatred and economic inequality — but, unmistakably, at Donald Trump, as well.

  • Wednesday, September 21st 2016 - 09:25 UTC

    Temer hails the triumph of democracy and pledges fiscal and social responsibility

    The Brazilian president said that the impeachment took place “with the most absolute respect of the constitutional order.”

    Brazil's new president, Michel Temer, told the United Nations on Tuesday that his controversial ascent showed the triumph of democracy. Temer took office on August 31 after the impeachment over accounting irregularities of elected president Dilma Rousseff, whose supporters said Brazil's right-wing forces had staged a bloodless coup.

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