President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is scheduled to receive this morning – in the Casa Rosada government house – United Nations’ Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon who has travelled to Buenos Aires from Cordoba by land due to the ash cloud produced by a Chilean Volcano that has limited flight activities on the Capital’s airports.
Argentine Ambassador to the United Nations Jorge Argüello affirmed that the United Kingdom avoids “the social and employment assistance budget cut” for the Malvinas Islands because its inhabitants “would migrate to Argentina.”
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced that Argentina and Iran will meet to discuss the two bombings of Jewish targets in the 1990's, attacks in which Iran was accused by Argentine courts of playing a role.
The United States is racing to finalize elements of its Syria strategy, planning new steps to shape and strengthen the still-fragmented opposition as signs build that the country is nearing a tipping point in the 20-month rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad.
Wrangling over aid to the developing world and the failure of rich countries to set tougher goals for fighting global warming threatened to derail UN talks among 200 nations on the final day today.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas repeated an offer today to restart peace talks with Israel after a UN vote to recognise Palestine as an observer state later this month.
Hours after the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to grant de-facto statehood to Palestine, Israel responded today by announcing it was authorising 3,000 new settler homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The UN nuclear watchdog will try to persuade Iran to address questions about its suspected nuclear weapons research at a meeting on Friday, more than two months after previous talks ended in failure.
Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi told UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that he was "honored, flattered, humbled and scared" at the prospect of leading international efforts to broker peace in Syria's worsening 17-month conflict.
Foreign ministers and the chief negotiator for world powers will meet next week to try to figure out how to break an impasse in negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme, after talks yielded no sign of progress.
The United Nations said it had started airdrops to deliver emergency food to a camp in South Sudan packed with people fleeing fighting on the Sudan side of the joint border.
The United Nations' four-month-old observer mission in Syria will withdraw from the country next week, diplomats and UN officials said, yet another blow to the world body's efforts to broker an end to the conflict.
US forces could move against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, President Barack Obama warned, notably if he deploys his chemical weapons against rebels trying to overthrow him.
If the world recognises Iran's "nuclear rights," negotiations aimed at easing a standoff with the West later this month could have a positive outcome, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader was quoted as saying.
Seven United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in Ivory Coast while on patrol near the border with neighbouring Liberia, the world body said.
Delegations from around the world failed to agree a landmark UN arms-trade treaty to regulate the more than $60 billion industry, opting for further talks and a possible UN General Assembly vote by the end of the year, diplomats said.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that Syria's conflict is deepening and attacks on civilian areas show no sign of abating, despite assurances from Damascus that it has begun withdrawing troops under an international peace plan.
Syria is nearing full-blown sectarian civil war that would be catastrophic for the entire Middle East, Western nations said, urging Russia to end its support for President Bashar al-Assad and put pressure on him to stop the bloodshed.
International envoy Kofi Annan said on Friday he was "frustrated and impatient" a week after a massacre in Syria of 108 people shocked the world, but Russia said his peace plan was still the best hope for Syria.
Syrian forces have killed more than 7,500 civilians since a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad began, a UN official said, and Hillary Clinton, the top US diplomat, suggested the Syrian leader may be a war criminal.
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan meets President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday to press for a political solution to Syria's year-long uprising and bloody crackdown in which thousands of people have been killed.
Syria has pledged to withdraw all military units from towns by April 10 to pave the way for a ceasefire with rebels two days later, th ough Western envoys were sceptical about Damascus' intent to halt its year-long assault on opponents.
Israeli-Palestinian talks aimed at reviving peace negotiations ended in Jordan without achieving any progress and President Mahmoud Abbas plans to consult fellow Arabs on his next move, Palestinian officials said.
Fighting sanctions with sanctions in a trial of strength with the West over its nuclear ambitions, Iran warned it may halt oil exports to Europe next week in a move calculated to hurt ailing European economies.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby appointed Ban's predecessor Kofi Annan as joint special envoy on the Syrian crisis, the United Nations announced.
The UN General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Syria for its eight-month crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in a vote backed by Western nations and most Arab states.
Syria faced growing economic sanctions and condemnation over "gross human rights violations," but President Bashar al-Assad showed no sign of buckling under international pressure to end his military crackdown on popular unrest.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog confirmed today that Iran has started enriching uranium at an underground site and said all atomic material there was under its surveillance.
A severe drought has been devastating the horn of Africa. The dramatic situation obligated the United Nations to declare famine in two regions of southern Somalia today, and warned that this could spread further within two months in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa country unless donors step in.
The UN chief told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday that he was alarmed by the escalating violence in Syria and demanded that Assad stop deploying the military against civilians.
By Ana Patiño.- On the road to the summit of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development that will be held on June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, members of LatAm governments stated during a seminar held in Buenos Aires their position regarding the sustainable development measures that are being applied and expressed how the “green economy” will help the human being without affecting the planet.
The Security Council unanimously recommended today that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon be elected for a second five-year term beginning in January 2012.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice called today for swift implementation of an agreement between north and south Sudan to demilitarize the disputed Abyei region.
The Arab League will apply to upgrade the Palestinians to full member status at the United Nations, according to a draft statement from a league meeting in Qatar today.
The world's population is projected to pass 7 billion on Oct. 31 as it heads toward 10 billion or more by the end of the century, a new UN report said.
Armed looters set fire to parts of Sudan's disputed Abyei border town, the United Nations said, days after north Sudanese troops seized it, pushing the north and south closer to conflict.
Ban Ki-moon formally asked the UN Security Council to support his candidacy for a second five-year term as UN secretary-general, according to a letter.
Japanese scientists have found measurable concentrations of radioactive iodine-131 and caesium-137 in seawater samples taken 30 km (18 miles) from land, the UN nuclear watchdog said.
Forces loyal to Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo stepped up a counter-attack on presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara by firing on his hotel headquarters in Abidjan.
The UN Security Council condemned what it called an "apparent terrorist attack" on a metro station in Belarus, phraseology that appeared to reflect uncertainty over who was behind it.
The problem of so-called "designer drugs" is running out of control in many regions of the world, the UN global drugs watchdog said.
Arab countries appealed to the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone on Libya as government troops backed by warplanes fought to drive rebels from remaining strongholds in western Libya.
The United States accused Muammar Gaddafi of defying international demands for an immediate ceasefire, and France's UN envoy predicted military action within hours of an international meeting on Libya.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said talks with major powers in Istanbul next month would be a historic opportunity to resolve the nuclear dispute if the West dropped what he called its policy of confrontation.
The United States vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements on Palestinian territory after the Palestinians refused to withdraw the Arab-drafted text.
The UN General Assembly unanimously suspended Libya's membership in the UN Human Rights Council because of violence by Libyan forces against protesters.
Honduras came under pressure to overhaul its broken prison system and allow an independent inquiry into a jailhouse blaze that killed more than 350 inmates, many burnt alive in their cells.
Bolivian President Evo Morales defended Bolivians' right to chew coca leaves, the main ingredient of cocaine, saying it was an ancient tradition and the world's No. 3 cocaine producer was working to fight drug trafficking.
Workers have removed about half of the twisted piles of concrete, steel and other debris that have clogged Haiti's capital and surrounding areas since its huge earthquake in January 2010, the United Nations reported.
The Union of South American Nations (Unasur) received the observer status in the UN General Assembly after the committee of judicial affairs of the organization unanimously approved its request.
The UN General Assembly called for the 20th straight year on the United States to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, as the communist-run island dismissed as fraudulent US moves to ease some restrictions.
Irish Actor Liam Neeson was announced as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, reflecting his long commitment to help save and improve the lives of children around the world affected by poverty, disease, abuse and neglect, the United Nations reported.
As the Arab Spring resulted in the deaths of thousands and the ousting of Middle Eastern leaders last year, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, disguised by a fake beard and accent, was filming his latest movie portraying a hated North African dictator.
The United Nations appointed Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan a goodwill ambassador, with a mission to help stop new HIV infections in children and promote increased access to anti-retroviral treatment.