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

The Conference on Disarmament today discussed the fourth core issue of the Conference, effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear weapons States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons, or so-called negative security assurances. During the discussion, speakers pointed…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of…

The Conference on Disarmament held a plenary meeting this morning in which 23 States and the European Union made statements focusing on the prevention of an arms race in outer space. In the statements, speakers said that outer space belonged to all mankind and States had a responsibility to…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Trade Organization, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe,…

Committee Adopts Conclusions on the Reports of Bangladesh, Belarus, Israel, Kenya, Lichtenstein, South Africa and Sri Lanka The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded on 4 February its forty-eighth session, adopting concluding observations and recommendations on…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Denmark, Afghanistan, Belarus, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, New Zealand, Ukraine, Singapore and Mexico The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its three-week-long fifty-sixth session and issued its concluding observations and…

The Conference on Disarmament today held a plenary meeting in which 27 States made statements focusing on fissile material and the need for the Conference to begin negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty as the next step in multilateral non-proliferation and nuclear arms control. In the…

Mothusi Bruce Rabasha Palai, the new Permanent Representative of Botswana 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. Palai had been serving as…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by spokespersons and representatives of the United Nations Population Fund, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children's Fund…