CHOCHABAMBA, March 31 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – About 500 delegates from Bolivian indigenous and rural organisations finished their prepatory deliberations for the First World Conference of the People on Climate Change to be held here from April 20 to 22. The native Bolivians will approve the “Country Paper” that includes the South American countries’ proposals to .
SUCRE, BOLIVIA, March 31 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Rural residents from Chuquisaca province have requested the explusion from the country of three Bolivian former presidents and one vice president who claimed recently of alleged political harassment. The rural province leader Faustino Yucra made the demand to the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Government and Migration .
SANTIAGO, March 31 (NNN-ECLAC) — Poverty and inequality militate against the quality of democracy and impede its full exercise in the region, said the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, Tuesday. In a lecture, titled “Strengthening Democracy in the Inter American System”, he delivered Tuesday morning at ECLAC headquarters .
SUCRE, March 31 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Bolivian Attorney General Mario Uribe has issued instructions to implement measures against those accused of corruption to prevent them from fleeing the country. Uribe extended the regulation to district attorneys that are investigating public corruption cases to avoid what happened recently with ex Government Minister of Hugo Banzer (1997-2001) .
MONTEVIDEO, March 31 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro said that the presidents of Brazil and Uruguay agreed to give a boost to UNASUR’s – Union of South American Nations -performance as a pro-integration and political coordination factor in the region. The presidential website quoted Almagro as saying that both parties advanced in .
CAIRO, March 31 (NNN-KUNA) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has ratified a law on organising nuclear and radioactive activities in Egypt. Minister of Electricity Dr Hassan Younis said in a statement Tuesday that this law aims at setting a legislative framework that regulates nuclear installations and activities in order to ensure the protection of facilities, .
BAGHDAD, March 31 (NNN-KUNA) — Iranian Ambassador in Baghdad Hassan Kazemi Qomi, after a three-hour meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Rafe’ Al-Eisawi here, said that Tehran is not interferring in the formation of the next government in Baghdad. The formation of the Iraqi government is an internal Iraqi matter and Iran has no intentions to .
WASHINGTON, March 31 (NNN-KUNA) — US Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill has said that it is hard to predict the shape of the next Iraqi government, while defending the performance of the United Nations in the recent national elections. “I should say that the issue of constructing a government, the issue of putting together broader .
RABAT, ABU DHABI, March 31 (NNN-WAM) — Search and rescue teams found the body of Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in the lake behind the Sidi Mohammed dam near Rabat in Morocco. The teams said in a statement issued Tuesday that the body was found after collective search efforts launched since last Friday. Expressing .
MANAMA, March 31 (NNN-BNA) — Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has unveiled a plan to set up a Thai commercial centre in Bahrain to promote Thai commodities in the GCC market, including mainly food stuff. Speaking at a press conference Tuesday on the occasion of his official visit to Bahrain, he said the visit of .
