Tag: United Nations

Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 07:11 UTC
People of Gibraltar will not be duped by Madrid's latest distortion of 'UK/Spain secret negotiations'

Spain is clutching at straws in trying to pretend that the annual United Nations Fourth Committee consensus decision is somehow something new or that will restart the Brussels Process, the Gibraltar Government said on Wednesday.
Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 20:29 UTC
Washington pledges not to spy on UN communications system

The United Nations said that the United States has pledged not to spy on the world body's communications after a report that the National Security Agency had gained access to the UN video conferencing system.
Tuesday, September 24th 2013 - 07:52 UTC
Santos accepts with ‘prudence’ Mujica’s offer to host peace talks with Colombia’s ELN guerrilla

President Juan Manuel Santos was grateful and ‘accepted with prudence’ his Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica offer to host a peace-talks process in Montevideo with the other big guerrilla movement in Colombia, the ELN, National Liberation Army
Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 06:54 UTC
UN describes the Montreal Protocol on ozone “a remarkable success story”

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Monday on the international community to continue efforts that will preserve the world’s ozone layer and protect the environment. In his message for the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, Mr. Ban pointed to the Montreal Protocol as an example of how Member States are capable to work for the common good.
Friday, September 13th 2013 - 01:20 UTC
Spain now disputes Portugal’s Savage Islands EEZ before the UN

Spain has quietly lodged an official request with the United Nations to have Portugal’s southern-most territory, the Savage Islands, declared as rocks and not as islands, according to a report from the Gibraltar Chronicle.
Monday, September 2nd 2013 - 12:35 UTC
Venezuela and Guyana agree to resume border dispute negotiations under UN umbrella

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ended a one-day visit to Guyana on Saturday in a move that strengthens the relationship between the two countries that have had a long standing border dispute. The two countries have agreed to ask the Jamaica-born academic, Professor Norman Girvan to continue as the United Nations (UN) Good Officer as they seek to settle their border dispute.
Friday, August 9th 2013 - 04:45 UTC
UN prepares to celebrate this Friday World Indigenous People Day

The International Day of the World's Indigenous People, 9 August was first proclaimed by the General Assembly in December 1994, to be celebrated every year during the first International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995 – 2004).
Friday, August 9th 2013 - 03:52 UTC
“Argentina, the Falklands and the UN: Self-determined”

This week’s incursion of President Cristina Fernandez at the United Nations Security Council, (because during August Argentina holds the rotating presidency of the council9 caught the attention of The Economist in a brief piece under the heading “Argentina, the Falklands and the UN: self determined”.
Monday, August 5th 2013 - 18:14 UTC
Mercosur complains to Ban Ki-moon on US global espionage and EU affront towards Bolivia’s Evo Morales

Mercosur foreign ministers warned UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the serious implications which the United States global espionage system represents for the international community, during a Monday midday meeting at the UN headquarters in New York.
Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 03:00 UTC
Ban Ki-moon on World Press Freedom Day: “When it is safe to speak, the whole world benefits.”

United Nations officials issued a call to action to ensure the safety of journalists in every country, echoing Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon who declared; “When it is safe to speak, the whole world benefits”.