Slobodan Vukčević, the new Permanent Representative of Serbia and Montenegro 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. Vukčević had been…

Levan Mikeladze, the new Permanent Representative of Georgia 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. Mikeladze had been serving as Georgia’s…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Mexico, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Uzbekistan, Guyana and Botswana The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its sixty-eighth session, issuing its concluding observations and…

Hears Statement by Women’s Non-Governmental Organizations on the Occasion of International Women’s Day The Conference on Disarmament today marked the seventh anniversary of the entry into force of the Mine Ban Convention before continuing its thematic debate on nuclear disarmament. On the…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, meeting under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece), today concluded its fifty-ninth session. Representatives of Kuwait, Iraq, and India addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening plenary…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which also heard from spokespersons of the International Labour Organization (ILO), World Health Organization (WHO), UN-Habitat, Office of the High…

Germany, Japan, Venezuela, Netherlands, Italy, Canada and Ireland also Take the Floor to Discuss Nuclear Disarmament Issues Kang Kyung-Wha, the Director-General for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea, today addressed the Conference on…

Committee Considers Draft Harmonized Reporting Guidelines on Reporting to Human Rights Treaty Bodies The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today exchanged views with Doudou Diène, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination,…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the fifteenth and sixteenth periodic reports of Botswana on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, P. C. T.…