Tag: United Nations

• Tuesday, June 29th 2010 - 05:09 UTC

  Lion’s share of the drugs business goes to final distributors, says UN expert

  

  The lion’s share (85%) of the gross profits from the cocaine business between South America and the United States ends in the wholesale and retail distribution network in the US according to Antonio Luigi Mazzitelli, head of the UN office on Drugs and Crime for Mexico and Central America.

• Saturday, June 26th 2010 - 05:27 UTC

  Timnerman underlines Beijing’s support in UN Falklands’ presentation

  

  Argentina’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman said that China expressed “strong support” for Argentina’s sovereignty claim over the Falklands and other South Atlantic islands, but was disappointed by the bias coverage of the Buenos Aires press.

• Thursday, June 24th 2010 - 22:50 UTC

  Timerman reaffirms Argentina’s ““unrenounceable” Falklands/Malvinas claim

  

  The United Nations Decolonisation Committee unanimously approved a resolution calling on Argentina and the United Kingdom to ensure the dialogue process and resume negotiations for a peaceful solution to the Falklands/Malvinas question.

• Thursday, June 24th 2010 - 21:41 UTC

  “C24 needs to decide what is more important: politics or human rights”

  

  The people of the Falkland Islands do not want to become part of Argentina and by pursuing its sovereignty claim “Argentina is seeking to colonise the people of the Falkland Islands”, said Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly Member Emma Edwards before the UN Decolonization Committee.

• Thursday, June 24th 2010 - 05:45 UTC

  UN reports advances in cutting extreme poverty

  

  The United Nations Secretary-General said Wednesday that despite the international food, fuel and financial crises, there has been progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, of cutting extreme poverty in half by 2015.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2010 - 04:50 UTC

  Timerman at the UN to deal with the Malvinas “anachronistic colonial issue”

  

  Argentina’s newly appointed Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman confirmed Tuesday he will be present next Thursday/Friday at the United Nations when the Decolonization Committee addresses the “anachronistic colonial issue of the Malvinas Islands”

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2010 - 04:36 UTC

  Argentine UN ambassador confident US will eventually play a part in Falklands’ dispute

  

  Argentine ambassador before United Nations Jorge Agüello said it “is only a matter of time” before the country recovers Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty and anticipated that Washington would play a “dialogue-facilitating” role with the UK in the long standing dispute.

• Tuesday, May 18th 2010 - 22:02 UTC

  Britain’s stance on the Falklands a “mistake”; UN resolutions must be complied

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said that Britain’s stance of declaring sovereignty over the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty “non-negotiable” is a “mistake” dictated by “unilateral practices” that have created insecurity in the world.

• Tuesday, May 4th 2010 - 04:41 UTC

  “Right to Know” Initiative on World Press Freedom Day

  

  A new global access to information initiative launched Monday to mark World Press Freedom Day, will test how easy (or not) it is to obtain information from 30 governments on their anti-corruption efforts.

• Monday, April 26th 2010 - 06:12 UTC

  Malvinas and the Bicentennial: the Rule of Law Shadowed by the Logics of Power

  

  In the Malvinas issue, the rule of the law has been shadowed by the logics of power, said Argentine ambassador before United Nations Jorge Arguello during the presentation Sunday of a book titled “The Malvinas question in the Bicentennial”.