The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard from speakers who welcomed the signing of a treaty on 8 September on the establishment of a nuclear weapons free zone in Central Asia by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Kazakhstan said the idea of the nuclear…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons and Representatives of Australia, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also addressed by Spokespersons for the UN Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World…

The Fifteenth 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 Wednesday,…

The two-day International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People this afternoon adopted a Plan of Action and concluded its annual meeting. The Plan of Action commits civil society organizations to ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and to…

The United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People opened its annual two-day session this morning, holding an opening meeting in which it heard addresses, including a message from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, followed by a plenary…

Ibrahim Mirghani Ibrahim, the new Permanent Representative of the Sudan 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. Ibrahim served as the…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the Information Service at the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the UN Refugee Agency and…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the…

Paul Kavanagh, the new Permanent Representative of Ireland 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. Kavanagh had been serving as the…