Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which provided information about a number of recent statements and messages from the Secretary-General on the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica…

The Human Rights Committee has considered the fourth periodic report of Yemen on how that State party implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Introducing the report, Abdulkader Kahtan, Brigadier General, Director General of the External Relations and…

The Human Rights Committee, which reviews the implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by its 153 States parties, this morning opened its eighty-fourth session, hearing an address by the Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the biweekly press briefing, which provided information on statements by the Secretary-General and the G-8 + 5 on yesterday’s bombings in London, the visits of two Special Rapporteurs of the Commission on Human…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning held the last of its four plenary meetings proposed by Conference President, Wegger Strommen of Norway, to discuss the issue of security assurances by nuclear weapon States for those which did not possess nuclear weapon capability. Today's meeting was…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the biweekly press briefing, which provided information on the Secretary-General’s statements and programme, upcoming activities in Geneva, refugees in Chad, asylum seekers from Uzbekistan, the need for increased…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which provided information on the Secretary-General's activities prior to his attendance at the G8 Summit, Uzbek asylum seekers and a seized WFP ship off the coast of Somalia, among other things.…

Awards $ 366.7 Million for Compensation The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece), has concluded its fifty-sixth session today. Representatives of Kuwait and Iraq addressed the fifteen-member Governing…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a meeting to discuss the prevention of an arms race in outer space as one of its core items and in response to the proposal made by the President of the Conference, Ambassador Wegger Strommen of Norway, to hold four public plenaries to address the…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which provided information on the start of the celebrations marking the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations yesterday in Geneva and New York, the General Assembly's second High-Level Dialogue…