Guinea-Bissau: UN peacebuilding office to close as new political crisis emerges
Lusa - Guinea-Bissau - 10/12/2020
Cabo Delgado: Mozambique will not ask UN for help to fight insurgents
Plataforma - Macau - 30/09/2020
Mozambican government does not consider asking the UN to send a force of blue helmets to help fight insurgents in Cabo Delgado.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mozambique, Verónica Macamo, said this Tuesday that the country does not intend to request…
Portugal re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee
Lusa - International - 18/09/2020
Portugal was re-elected as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, for another four years, in elections held at the organization’s General Assembly on Thursday in New York.
Since January 2017, Portugal has been represented by José Manuel Santos Pais, re-elected…
Emerging countries call for "urgent" UN Security Council reform
Lusa - Internacional - 17/09/2020
The governments of Brazil, the Republic of India and South Africa today called for an “urgent” and “wide-ranging” reform of the UN Security Council and a greater role for emerging countries in decision-making.
“We emphasize the need for the…
IAEA with access to sites suspected of nuclear activity in Iran
AFP - Austria - 27/08/2020
Iran has accepted this week that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a UN entity, has access to two alleged Iranian nuclear facilities.
Tehran’s green light comes amid tensions stemming from the United States’ attempt to re-impose UN sanctions on…
Guterres proposes six actions to save the planet
Jornal de Angola - 22/04/2020
“The impact of the coronavirus is immediate and terrible. But there is another deep emergency, the planet’s environmental crisis. (…) We must act decisively to protect our planet, both from the coronavirus and from the existential threat of climatic…
