Marie Heuzé, Spokesperson of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the UN Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the International…

The Thirteenth Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the States Parties to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW) concluded on Friday, 10 March…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from the Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Meteorological Organization, the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the World…

Arsene M. Balihuta, the new Permanent Representative of Uganda to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzonikidze, the Director-General to the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Balihuta had been working since 1992…

Don MacKay, the new Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. MacKay had been serving as Permanent…

Slobodan Vukčević, the new Permanent Representative of Serbia and Montenegro to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Vukčević had been…

Levan Mikeladze, the new Permanent Representative of Georgia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Mikeladze had been serving as Georgia’s…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Mexico, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Uzbekistan, Guyana and Botswana The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its sixty-eighth session, issuing its concluding observations and…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, meeting under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece), today concluded its fifty-ninth session. Representatives of Kuwait, Iraq, and India addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening plenary…