The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its fifty-ninth session from 7 to 9 March 2006 under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece). The Council will be electing a new Vice-President, as one of two Vice-Presidents (Romania) left the…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from the Spokespersons for the UN Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, the Economic Commission for Europe, the World Health…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the initial to fourteenth periodic reports of Guyana on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report were Bibi Shaddick…

The Thirteenth Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the States Parties to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW), established by the Second…

Decides to Consider Case of the Western Shoshone in the United States Under its Early Warning and Urgent Action Procedure The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the cases of Ethiopia and Papua New Guinea under its review procedure for States parties whose…

The Conference on Disarmament today continued with its thematic debate on nuclear disarmament, focusing on the future of nuclear disarmament. There were calls by Member States for the Conference to immediately start negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty, and other calls for the…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the third to fifth periodic reports of Uzbekistan on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Akmal Saidov,…

Adopts Guidelines for States Parties on Follow-up to its Recommendations The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the situation in Mozambique under its review procedure for seriously overdue reports, and adopted guidelines intended to assist States parties in…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the ninth to thirteenth periodic reports of El Salvador on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. Presenting the report, Guillermo…

The Conference on Disarmament today held a thematic debate on assessing the implementation of nuclear disarmament, hearing from the Russian Federation and the United States on their efforts to reduce their nuclear arsenals and from other Member States who outlined their priorities within the…