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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF INDIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF INDIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA 28 April 2017 Presentation of Credentials Rajiv Kumar Chander, the new Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Chander had been serving as Consul General of…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 28 April 2017 UN Geneva Press Briefing Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade…

Press release from the Office of the United Nations Representative to the Geneva International Discussions

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Press release from the Office of the United Nations Representative to the Geneva International Discussions 27 April 2017 Press Release 45th meeting of Gali Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism On 25 April 2017, the 45th meeting of the joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Gali town under the aegis of the United Nations, with the participation of Georgian, Russian, Abkhaz and EUMM (European Union Monitoring Mission) representatives. As…

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF INDONESIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF INDONESIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA 26 April 2017 Presentation of Credentials Hasan Kleib, the new Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Kleib had been serving as Deputy Minister and…

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW WORKING GROUP TO HOLD TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION IN GENEVA FROM 1 TO 12 MAY 2017 MARKING THE START OF THE THIRD CYCLE

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW WORKING GROUP TO HOLD TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION IN GENEVA FROM 1 TO 12 MAY 2017 MARKING THE START OF THE THIRD CYCLE 26 April 2017 Press Release The twenty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 1 to 12 May marking the beginning of the third UPR cycle during which all 193 UN member States…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 25 April 2017 UN Geneva Press Briefing Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Health Organization, the…

Press Stake-out by the UN Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, with the Federal Councilor, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation, Mr. Didier Burkhalter (in French)

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Press Stake-out by the UN Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, with the Federal Councilor, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation, Mr. Didier Burkhalter (in French) 24 April 2017 Press Conferences Berne, 24 avril 2017 Secrétaire général: Le rapport entre les Nations Unies et la Suisse est pour moi une question politique et une affaire de cœur. Question politique parce qu'aujourd'hui la Suisse est un pilier fondamental du…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 21 April 2017 UN Geneva Press Briefing Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the World Trade Organization. United Nations…

UNITED NATIONS CHILD RIGHTS COMMITTEE URGES ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PLIGHT OF SYRIA’S CHILDREN

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home UNITED NATIONS CHILD RIGHTS COMMITTEE URGES ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PLIGHT OF SYRIA’S CHILDREN 20 April 2017 Press Release GENEVA (20 April 2017) – The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called for accountability for the reprehensible acts being committed against children in Syria. “Yet again, children are bearing the brunt of horrific attacks in Syria,” said Committee Chair Benyam Dawit Mezmur, in…

Staffan de Mistura Special Envoy for Syria and Jan Egeland UN Senior Advisor Stakeout after the HTF Meeting

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home Staffan de Mistura Special Envoy for Syria and Jan Egeland UN Senior Advisor Stakeout after the HTF Meeting 20 April 2017 Statements and Speeches Staffan de Mistura: Good afternoon, We will do it like this, I will first do a briefing and then take some questions and then my friend Jan Egeland will do his own about the humanitarian side, so that we don’t confuse questions between political and humanitarian. But let me say anyway one thing about the humanitarian side: We…