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…

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

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 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Relief and…

The President of the Conference on Disarmament today informed the Conference that consensus on implementation of the programme of work of the Conference was not possible at this stage. China and Iran thanked the President for her efforts and transparent consultations to promote agreement on the…

Mukhtar Tileuberdi, the new Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan 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, Mr. Tileuberdi had been serving as Kazakhstan’s…

Shehab Madi, the new Permanent Representative of Jordan 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, Mr. Madi had been serving as Jordan’s Ambassador to the…

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 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Meteorological…

Juan Jose Ignacio Gomez Camacho, the new Permanent Representative of Mexico 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. Gomez Camacho had been…

Jüri Seilenthal, the new Permanent Representative of Estonia 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, since August 2006, Mr. Seilenthal had been…

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