Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons and representatives for the World Health Organisation, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration.Syria Ms. Vellucci said that, on this last day of the round of talks on Syria which was being held in Geneva this week, the Special Envoy for Syria, Mr Staffan de Mistura, would welcome all the invitees to the talks. Every group of participants would be seeing him today: the...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the World Meteorological Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.Cyprus Alessandra Vellucci said that in spite of the efforts that went on until 3 a.m. this morning, unfortunately, the conference on Cyprus had closed on a failure. It had not been possible to...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, and the World Meteorological Organization, Syria Ms. Vellucci said that the Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura was participating in the in Astana meeting. There would be information available for journalists during the...

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization, and the World Trade Organization.Conference on Cyprus Mr. LeBlanc said the Conference on Cyprus continued today in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, and the UN Secretary-General had arrived there this...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokesperson for the World Health Organization.Syria On behalf of the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria (OSE), Alessandra Vellucci, for the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, said the Special Envoy for Syria would be briefing the UN Security Council today, at 9.45 a.m. EST; the briefing would be webcast. Yemen Christian Lindmeier, for the World Health Organization (WHO), introduced Dr. Ahmed Zouiten, Senior Emergency Advisor for Yemen, WHO, who was...

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.Yemen Christophe Boulierac, for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), introduced Meritxell Relano, UNICEF Representative in Yemen. Speaking via phone from Sana’a, Ms. Relano...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, 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 United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Meteorological Organization, and the Human Rights Council.Syria Michael Contet, for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria (OSE), mentioned...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Organization for Migration and the World Health Organization.Human Rights Council Update Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council, briefed the press on the Human Rights Council agenda of the day. At 10 a.m. the Council would continue its general debate on human rights situations...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Telecommunications Union, the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the World Food Programme.Thailand Rupert Colville, for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said OHCHR was very concerned by the rise in the number of lèse-...

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service at the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, and the International Labour Organisation. Human Rights Council Update Rolando Gomez, for the Human Rights Council, briefed the press on the Human Rights Council agenda of the day. At 9 a.m. the Council had heard a...