Tag: UN

• Monday, August 26th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Lacalle to speak before the UN about Venezuela's electoral fraud

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou plans to address the issue of the Venezuelan crisis during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), it was reported this weekend in Montevideo. The National Party leader is convinced that “there is no will [in Caracas] to count the votes.”

• Tuesday, May 14th 2024 - 10:48 UTC

  UN staff reported killed in Israeli offensive

  

  UN Secretary-General António Guterres again called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza as one UN worker was killed and another injured during the Israeli deployment in the southern city of Rafah. According to the Hamas terrorist group's press office, both were traveling in a vehicle marked with UN flags and logos.

• Friday, April 19th 2024 - 10:19 UTC

  Palestine denied UN full membership through US veto

  

  The United States exercised its veto power Thursday within the United Nations Security Council to cut Palestine short from full statehood and membership, it was reported in New York. Hence Palestine remained a “permanent observer state” with no voting rights within the global organization.

• Tuesday, March 26th 2024 - 02:26 UTC

  Gaza: UN Security Council passes ceasefire resolution during Ramadan

  

  The United Nations (UN) Security Council passed Monday a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, it was reported from New York. It was the first time that none of the superpowers powers holding veto rights chose to exercise it.

• Saturday, September 18th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Brazilian President and British PM to meet privately in NYC before UN speech

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro will meet British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on Monday, in New York, before delivering the opening speech at the United Nations General Assembly, it was announced.

• Tuesday, July 13th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Latam expected to grow 5,2% this year but 2,9% in 2022: structural problems remain, ECLAC report

  

  The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) raised its average growth estimate for the region in 2021 to 5.2%, reflecting a rebound from the deep contraction of 6.8% registered in 2020 as a consequence of the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 00:16 UTC

  With no budget by Thursday, UN peacekeeping missions to be frozen

  

  United Nations has instructed peacekeeping missions “to make contingency plans” to leave since no agreement has been reached for the financial year beginning July first, and which could lead to a freeze of activities, diplomats revealed. The roadblock allegedly stems from China and African countries making multiple last-minute requests.

• Thursday, June 24th 2021 - 15:00 UTC

  “For Argentina, the only acceptable outcome of any 'negotiation' is taking control of the Falklands”, MLA Roberts at the UN

  

  Falkland Islands’ Deputy Chair of the Legislative assembly, MLA Leona Roberts is part of the commission that stood before members of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24) and delivered a speech that spoke of their personal histories as well as the future of the Falkland Islands as a whole.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Solá meets with UN chief Guterres ahead of the C24 conference

  

  Argentine foreign minister Felipe Solá requested United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to intercede before UK so that the British “consent to resume discussions” over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Bachelet says Ortega regime must release all political prisoners in Nicaragua

  

  Former Chilean President and current United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet Tuesday called for the release of Nicaraguan opposition politicians who have been placed under arrest by the Daniel Ortega regime over the past three weeks.