Ambassador Valery Loshchinin of the Russian Federation, the incoming President of the Conference on Disarmament, this morning presented to the Conference the work plan that he intended to follow for the month of June which will mainly be devoted to the prevention of an arms race in outer space. Mr…

On 1 June 2006, the report of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC) was officially presented to the Director-General of UNOG, in his capacity as Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament. Dr. Patricia Lewis, Commissioner of the WMDC and Director of the United Nations Institute…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the initial reports of Iceland on how that country is implementing the provisions of the two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child…

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 UNAIDS, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the International…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the third periodic report of Colombia on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report was Clemencia Ferero Ucros, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Colombia…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the initial report of Turkmenistan on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Introducing the report was Chary Atakhanov, Advisor at the Department of International Organizations at the…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the third periodic report of Lebanon on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In an introductory statement, Gebran Soufan, Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations…

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today postponed its consideration of the second periodic report of the Marshall Islands on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child because the delegation of that country did not show up to present the…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service at Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the UN Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…