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Montevideo, July 2nd 2025 - 14:00 UTC

Tag: United Nations

  • Friday, February 8th 2019 - 10:15 UTC

    Global food prices started 2019 with a rebound, says FAO

    The FAO Dairy Price Index rose 7.2 percent from December, reversing seven months of falling prices

    Global food prices began the year on a buoyant note, as the FAO Food Price Index averaged 164.8 points in January 2019, up 1.8 percent from the previous month. A sharp rebound in dairy price quotations and firmer prices of palm and soy oils drove the increase, the United Nations agency said today.

  • Thursday, February 7th 2019 - 10:33 UTC

    As March countdown clicks, UN warns about global implications of the US/China trade dispute

    United States plans to increase tariffs on Chinese goods if the two sides fail to make progress on a trade deal by 1 March

    United Nations trade official has warned a US plan to raise tariffs on Chinese goods next month would have “massive” implications for the global economy. The US plans to increase tariffs on Chinese goods if the two sides fail to make progress on a trade deal by 1 March.

  • Thursday, February 7th 2019 - 09:16 UTC

    Last four years the hottest on record, confirms UN's Meteorological Office

    “The long-term temperature trend is far more important than the ranking of individual years, and that trend is an upward one,” said WMO Petteri Taalas

    The last four years were the hottest since global temperature records began, the UN confirmed on Wednesday in an analysis that it said was a “clear sign of continuing long-term climate change”. The UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in November that 2018 was set to be the fourth warmest year in recorded history, stressing the urgent need for action to rein in runaway planetary warming.

  • Tuesday, February 5th 2019 - 06:48 UTC

    UN chief Antonio Guterres sends Lunar New Year greetings

    Guterres began his greeting in Mandarin: “Chun Jie Kuai Le!” (Happy Spring Festival!) “I'm pleased to send you my best wishes on this auspicious occasion.”

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday extended his warm wishes for the Chinese Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival. In a video message, Guterres thanked China and the Chinese people for their commitment to the United Nations and called for efforts to build a peaceful and prosperous world.

  • Sunday, February 3rd 2019 - 10:02 UTC

    Gibraltar's legal status is a matter of fact, not opinion

    Gibraltar is listed on the list of non-self-governing territories maintained by the United Nations.

    In its proposal for post-Brexit, ‘visa-free travel’ the European Council on Friday has described Gibraltar as a “colony of the British Crown.” HM Government of Gibraltar is grateful to the Prime Minister for her comment that such a description is “completely unacceptable.”

  • Thursday, January 31st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

    Humanitarian aid to Venezuela caught in a divided UN Security Council

    Venezuela’s seat at the 193-member world body is held by President Nicolas Maduro’s government and Guterres is unable to ramp up a humanitarian response

    Three days after proclaiming himself Venezuela’s head of state, Juan Guaidó wrote to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asking for help in tackling the country’s urgent humanitarian crisis.

  • Wednesday, January 30th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

    UN chief Guterres ready to facilitate dialogue and negotiations in Venezuela

    The talks with Guterres at the United Nations came five days after Venezuelan Opposition Leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president

    Following a meeting with a delegation from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has offered to facilitate discussion to help resolve the ongoing political crisis in Venezuela.

  • Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 20:02 UTC

    USA at the UN: Countries should support transition in Venezuela; Russia denounces interventionist acts

    Mike Pompeo asked the nations to paralyze financial transactions with the government of Nicolás Maduro

    The Security Council convened by the United States this Saturday to discuss the institutional and political crisis that Venezuela is experiencing has been lifted this afternoon. With a strongly polarized participation, the bloc that supports the transitional government of Juan Guaidó with the US at the head, faced the block that recognizes as legitimate the regime of Nicolás Maduro, headed by Russia and China. Latin American countries also expressed their positions, describing the case as a crisis that directly affects the region.

  • Friday, January 18th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

    WHO statement on reports of alleged misconduct

    The allegations have been addressed openly by Dr Tedros in global meetings with staff in which he stressed that WHO has zero tolerance for misconduct

    World Health Organization (WHO) is aware of a news story published today about allegations of misconduct in the organization. The allegations are being investigated according to WHO’s established procedures, having been referred to WHO’s Office of Internal Oversight Services by the Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

  • Monday, January 14th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

    FAO Food Price Index fell almost 22% in 2018 compared to 2017

    Wheat and maize prices rose during December due to weather effects in the southern hemisphere, while rice prices declined for the sixth successive month

    Global food prices held broadly stable in December, with rising international cereal prices offsetting declining sugar and dairy quotations, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said. However overall for 2018, the FAO Food Price Index fell by almost 22% from 2017