Tag: United Nations

Wednesday, September 18th 2024 - 09:21 UTC
Peruvian President denied permission to attend United Nations GA

Peru's one-house Congress on Tuesday voted against allowing President Dina Boluarte to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week, with 55 votes to 50 and 5 abstentions. Boluarte intended to be in the United States between Sept. 22 and 25 while remaining in charge of the South American country remotely.
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Friday, July 19th 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Brazil moves forward with food security initiative

The Brazilian government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva brought this week its initiative to create a global alliance to combat hunger and poverty through the promotion of food security strategies and boosting people's income to a United Nations panel in New York, Agencia Brasil reported.
Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:59 UTC
Falklands tells Decolonization Committee C24, “Our voice is all that matters”

By MLA Teslyn Barkman

The Falklands people are not the UK officials that have administered the Islands. However, Argentina don’t accept this, and requested again to be our colonial masters at the UN C24-decolonisation committee. MLA Short and I attended the UN meeting of the “question of the Falklands” on Tuesday 18th June to point to the obvious - Our voice is all that matters.
Wednesday, June 19th 2024 - 10:57 UTC
“Requesting UK and Argentina talk bilaterally about Falklands future is entirely colonial,” MLA Teslyn Barkman

A group of elected assembly members from the Falkland Islands presented an address to the United Nations Special Committee on the situation regarding the implementation of the declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples.
Thursday, June 13th 2024 - 10:55 UTC
MLAs Barkman and Short ready to defend Falklands' self determination at UN C24 meeting

A team from the Falklands Islands is currently in the United States, more precisely in Washington for a series of political contacts in Congress and the State Department.
Saturday, June 8th 2024 - 10:30 UTC
Paraguay not welcoming UN suggestion to legalize abortion

Paraguay's Minister of Childhood and Adolescence, Walter Gutiérrez, said Friday in Asunción that a suggestion from the United Nations to legalize abortion in the South American country collided with the Constitution and other national laws. “We would have to change the constitution,” he explained.
Monday, May 20th 2024 - 10:45 UTC
Wars and climate change to blame for slowdown in world commerce, UN official says

A high-ranking United Nations (UN) official warned last week that worldwide commerce was threatened by climate change and wars such as the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
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.