Plenary session of the Conference on Disarmament - As delivered Mr. President, Ambassador Duong, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a pleasure and a privilege to address you today, as Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament who shall also act as personal representative of…

Conference on Disarmament Discusses the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space Tatiana Valovaya, the newly appointed Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, addressed the Conference on Disarmament for the first time this…

Anti-Semitism and the situation of Roma and people of African descent were among issues raised by Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as it considered the combined initial and second periodic report of the State of Palestine on its implementation of the…

Also Hears Statements on the Situation in the Korean Peninsula The Conference on Disarmament this afternoon held a brief plenary meeting, following which it held consultations in an informal setting on document CD/WP.622 entitled “Draft decision on possible elements of a programme of work” and…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the…

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Bangladesh, Greece, Poland, and Togo The Committee against Torture this morning closed its sixty-seventh session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Bangladesh, Greece, Poland, and Togo, on the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the representatives of the World Food Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Seventieth anniversary of the Geneva…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its review of the combined eighteenth to twenty-first periodic report of Mexico on measures taken to implement the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.…

Juan Alberto Castillero Correa, the new Permanent Representative of Panama to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Castillero Correa worked as a…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a substantive discussion on the issue of prevention of nuclear war, including all related matters. President of the Conference on Disarmament, Ambassador Duong Chi Dung of Viet Nam, welcomed the participants in the panel discussion on the prevention…