Groupe socialiste (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Human rights activist Aminatou Haidar – stripped of her passport by Morocco and now on hunger strike in the Canary Islands – was today given a pledge of support by the European Parliament’s main progressive group, the Socialists and Democrats. The S&D Group, whose leadership is holding talks with the incoming Spanish Presidency of the EU Council in Madrid, also supported efforts...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Estoril, Portugal - Spain will neither recognize nor ignore Sunday's elections in Honduras, which were dividing Ibero-American countries Monday at a summit in Portugal, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said. Ele...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Spain will seek to establish a new bilateral agreement on EU-Cuba ties, including human rights, in the first half of 2010 when it will hold the EU's rotating presidency, its foreign minister said Saturday. Spain's Miguel Angel Moratinos stressed his country's intentions after a European Union meeting with Cuba, represented by its foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez. The talks were the fourth of their...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Madrid - Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos on Monday rejected criticism over the government's handling of the case of Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar, who went into her eighth day of a hunger strike at the airport of the Canary ...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Opposing groups try to find consensus on who should take presidential and foreign minister roles ahead of Brussels summit The leaders of Europe's main political tribes conferred in Brussels this afternoon in an attempt to hammer out a last-minute consensus on who should be the top two people running the EU's new Lisbon regime ahead of a crucial Brussels summit. While Christian democratic government...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Madrid - Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos denied Wednesday that he is a candidate for heading the European Union's foreign policy arm. I am very happy to be Spanish foreign minister, Moratinos, a former European envoy to the Middle E...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Madrid - Spain will boost relations between the European Union and South Caucasian states during its EU presidency in the first half of 2010, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told Georgian Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri in Madrid. Mora...
Sify (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said here his country's new policy towards Cuba 'has already had one result,' the renewal of aid to the island state, which will continue to increase, a report said.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Madrid/Tegucigalpa - Spain will not recognize Honduras' de facto government despite the Central American country's refusal to allow the Spanish ambassador to return unless it does so, Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Monday. The ambassado...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
New York - The European Union and Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday said they would pull their ambassadors out of Honduras. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos and OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza made the announ...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Foreign Minister of Spain Miguel Angel Moratinos said Wednesday that his country supports the establishment of an independent Palestinian statehood on the borders of 1967. Moratinos made the statement in a joint news conference held in Ramallah with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, adding that Spain and the European Union "will keep exerting every possible effort to achieve the Palestinian...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
Damascus - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos in Damascus on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations and regional peace prospects, media reports said. Al-Assad and Moratinos discussed the growin...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
Santander, Spain - The European Union is considering new measures to pressure Honduras to allow the return to power of ousted president Manuel Zelaya, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Friday. The EU's Latin America Group will disc...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
Santander, Spain - US President Barack Obama will visit Spain during the country's European Union presidency in the first half of 2010, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos announced Friday. The visit was seen as signalling warmer relation...
RSD Reports (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
By Andrei Fedyashin On July 21, Spain's foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos became the first Spanish government official to visit Gibraltar since 1704 when a combined British-Austrian force seized control of it during the War of the Spanish Succession. Gibraltar is a self-governing British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula and Europe at the entrance of the...
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