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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 06:55 UTC

Tag: United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation

  • Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 08:02 UTC

    Special Committee of 24 scheduled to hold Pacific Regional Seminar in Ecuador

    The Week of Solidarity with the Peoples’ of the Non-Self-Governing Territories will also be celebrated at the seminar said Committee Chairman Diego Morejón

    The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation — also known as the Special Committee of 24 — is to hold its Pacific Regional Seminar in Guayaquil, Ecuador, from 28 to 30 May. Its agenda is to review progress in the United Nations decolonisation process.

  • Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 21:36 UTC

    Principle of self-determination

    An overwhelming 92% turned out to vote in the Falkland Islands referendum

    The following column was published in The Malta Times - After her first meeting with Pope Francis, Argen¬tina’s President, Cristina Fernandez, admitted that she tried to recruit the newly-elected Argentine-born Pontiff to support her efforts to gain control of the Falkland Islands. In spite of this predictable move, the Vatican is unlikely to intervene publicly in this conflict.