The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the initial to third periodic reports of Indonesia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Harkristuti…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the eleventh to fifteenth combined periodic reports of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination.…

The Conference on Disarmament today discussed developments affecting the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), hearing from the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the President of the Sixth…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the second to twelfth periodic reports of Mozambique on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Esperança Machavela, Minister of Justice…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the High…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the second to fourth periodic reports of Kyrgyzstan on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Muktar Djumaliev,…

Najla Riachi Assaker, the new Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Assaker had been serving at the…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the fifteenth to seventeenth periodic reports of New Zealand on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Don MacKay…

President Reports No Change in Position of Delegations Needing More Time to Decide on Texts to Resume Substantive Work Ambassador Jurg Streuli of Switzerland, the President of the Conference on Disarmament, this morning opened the third and last part of the 2007 session of the Conference and said…