Experts Discussed Promotion of Capacity Building in the Fields of Disease Surveillance, Detection, Diagnosis and Containment The 2009 Meeting of Experts from States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) was held in Geneva from 24 to 28 August 2009. The Meeting was held to discuss and…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Azerbaijan, Chad, Chile, China and the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macao, Colombia, Ethiopia, Greece, Peru, the Philippines, Poland and the United Arab Emirates The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today…

The Conference on Disarmament today continued its efforts to reach a consensus on implementing its programme of work, hearing statements by Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Australia, Cuba, China, Brazil, Bangladesh and the United Kingdom as well as from the Austrian Presidency of the Conference and from the…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the UN…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard statements from Chile, Canada, Italy, France and the Austrian Presidency of the Conference on the prevailing stalemate in the implementation of the programme of work. Kazakhstan, Algeria and Russia also spoke on other issues. Incoming President of…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined tenth to fifteenth periodic report of Chad on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Abderaman…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by spokespersons for and representatives of the World Health Organization, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the United…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined seventh to sixteenth periodic report of Ethiopia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Fisseha…

Many Delegations Express Profound Disappointment at Procedural Faultfinding and Warn of Return to Previous Situation of Impasse This morning the Conference on Disarmament heard statements from 16 national delegations, as well as from Sweden on behalf of the European Union and from Australian…

Experts to Discuss Promotion of Capacity Building in the Fields of Disease Surveillance, Detection, Diagnosis and Containment The 2009 Meeting of Experts from States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will be held in Geneva from 24 to 28 August 2009. This year's Meeting of…