By MARK LORENZANA Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations Juan Ramón de la Fuente on Monday, Oct. 10, criticized the annexation by Russia of four Ukrainian territories, and branded the act as illegal. De la Fuente likewise announced that Mexico will vote in favor of a draft resolution in the UN General Assembly condemning Russia for annexing the four Ukrainian
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The Azerbaijani Embassy in Mexico hosted a daylong celebration of the festival of Nowrūz, an ancient spring holiday, at Mexico City’s Lincoln Park on Saturday, March 19. The open-air celebration, which was hosted by Azerbaijani Ambassador to Mexico Mammad Talibov, his wife Kamala Talibova and their daughter Faray Talibli, included a performance of traditional Azeri dances by
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in representation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), on Thursday, Sept. 23, once again demanded that the United States end its 59-year economic embargo against Cuba. “In the face of the current severe global economic and health crisis, it is
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XINHUA The covid-19 pandemic may have slowed international migration flows by around 2 million people last year, cutting the annual growth expected since mid-2019 by around 27 percent, according to a report by the United Nations released Friday, Jan. 15. International Migration 2020 Highlights, published by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), shows that since the year
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XINHUA EDITORIAL Seventy-five years ago, tormented by the scourge of war that twice brought untold miseries to mankind, countries around the world joined hands and built an international order and system with the United Nations at the core. As the most universal, representative and authoritative international organization, the United Nations has now become the most important multilateral arena to promote
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XINHUA The UN General Assembly on Wednesday, June 17, elected Mexico, India, Ireland and Norway as non-permanent members of the Security Council for a two-year term. Mexico ran uncontested for the position. One non-permanent seat remains to be filled. Kenya and Djibouti, neither of which won the required two-third majority on Wednesday, will enter a run-off on Thursday, June 18,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While many countries around the world are taking a go-it-alone, isolationist approach to dealing with the mounting international covid-19 pandemic, often resorting to finger-pointing blame games, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is instead adopting a let’s-work-together policy to confront the disease. The NAM — a forum of 120 developing world states that are not formally aligned with or
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Just as U.S. President Donald J. Trump was blasting Iran at the United Nations General Assembly for “sowing chaos, death and destruction,” Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Mexico Hammad al-Rowaily said on Tuesday, Sept. 25, that Tehran has already violated its 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) promises to the West to limit its nuclear development to peaceful
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas doesn’t give up easily. If one door closes for him, he’ll simply find another. And that is exactly what he is planning for Wednesday, Sept. 19, when he will fly to Paris to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in an attempt to circumvent the United States by securing European sponsorship
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