Tag: United Nations

• Friday, March 1st 2024 - 05:00 UTC

  Cuban government begs UN food program for milk to feed children

  

  The Cuban government has asked the UN's food program for help as food shortages on the Communist-run island worsen. The World Food Program (WFP) said it had received an unprecedented official request from the Cuban government for help providing powdered milk to children under seven years of age.

• Tuesday, February 27th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

  US endorses Guyana's stance on Essequibo but no military base

  

  US Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Linda Thomas-Greenfield insisted Monday that her country supported Guyana's stance in the dispute over the oil-rich Essequibo region with Venezuela but denied that the President Joseph Biden administration was eyeing any military settlement in the region.

• Wednesday, December 13th 2023 - 10:09 UTC

  UN, US and Mercosur call on Guatemala to respect election results and denounce “an attempted coup”

  

  The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Mercosur member countries, the European Union and the US have called on Guatemala authorities to impede the Central American country's Attorney General's office to annul the general election result preventing President-elect Bernardo Arevalo from taking office in January.

• Tuesday, November 14th 2023 - 09:00 UTC

  UN humanitarian aid in Gaza threatened by fuel problems

  

  United Nations (UN) humanitarian workers might be forced to halt their deployment in the Gaza Strip in the next few hours due to lack of fuel, as shelling and fighting continued near the northern border with Israel, it was reported.

• Friday, October 27th 2023 - 10:09 UTC

  UN Security Council: Brazil drafting 5th resolution on Middle East crisis

  

  Diplomatic representatives of Brazil, the country chairing the United Nations Security Council, are drafting a fifth resolution regarding the ongoing war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas after four previous attempts failed to garner enough votes or were vetoed by one or more of the body's permanent members, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Friday, October 27th 2023 - 09:51 UTC

  UN General Assembly evaluating ceasefire in Middle East war

  

  A United Nations (UN) General Assembly meeting where a possible resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in the Middle East was adjourned Thursday, Agencia Brasil reported. The body is to resume Friday the discussion of the conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip region.

• Thursday, October 19th 2023 - 09:35 UTC

  Security Council rejects Brazil’s proposal regarding Israel-Hamas conflict

  

  The United Nations (UN) Security Council Wednesday rejected by 12 votes to one and two abstentions Brazil's proposal of humanitarian pauses in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian extremist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Tuesday, October 3rd 2023 - 09:23 UTC

  Brazil speaking for Mercosur supports Argentina's Falklands sovereignty claims at UN debate

  

  The United Nations Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) began its general debate on decolonization and related items on Monday, with many speakers emphasizing the need to resolve the questions of the 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories, more than six decades after the General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. The Falklands/Malvinas case was speared by Brazil in representation of Mercosur, while as usual the Spanish representative criticized the Gibraltar situation.

• Wednesday, September 6th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  Alarm: dredging industry extracts a million dump trucks of sand from the sea each day, UNEP report

  

  The first-ever global data platform on sand and other sediment extraction in the marine environment finds that the marine dredging industry is digging up 6 billion tons per year, the equivalent of more than 1 million dump trucks per day. This is significantly impacting biodiversity and coastal communities.

• Monday, July 17th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  UN Coordinator in Uruguay praises local gov't for efforts handling water crisis

  

  Pablo Ruiz Hiebra, United Nations (UN) Coordinator in Uruguay, Sunday highlighted the “efforts” of the South American country's government in the face of the water crisis.