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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

17 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 19 June 2007 UN Geneva Press Briefing Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme, the UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization, the United…

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONCLUDES FIFTH SESSION AFTER ADOPTING PRESIDENTIAL TEXT ON INSTITUTION BUILDING OF COUNCIL

17 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CONCLUDES FIFTH SESSION AFTER ADOPTING PRESIDENTIAL TEXT ON INSTITUTION BUILDING OF COUNCIL 19 June 2007 Press Release The Human Rights Council concluded its fifth session at midnight on 18 June after adopting a Presidential text on the institution building of the Council. In remarks to journalists at the end of the meeting, Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, the President of the Council,…

SIXTY-THIRD SESSION OF UNCC GOVERNING COUNCIL TO BE HELD FROM 20 TO 22 JUNE

17 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home SIXTY-THIRD SESSION OF UNCC GOVERNING COUNCIL TO BE HELD FROM 20 TO 22 JUNE 18 June 2007 Press Release The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its sixty-third session from 20 to 22 June 2007 under the Presidency of Ambassador Alex Van Meeuwen (Belgium). During the session, the Governing Council will discuss various issues relating to the work of the Compensation Commission including reports of the Executive Secretary on the activities…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

17 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 15 June 2007 UN Geneva Press Briefing 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 the Human Rights Council's fifth session, and other Geneva Activities, including the Conference on Disarmament, the situation in Gaza, the Day of the African Child, and World Refugee Day, among others.…

DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG MEETS WITH PRESIDENT OF SIXTY-SECOND SESSION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY

17 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG MEETS WITH PRESIDENT OF SIXTY-SECOND SESSION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY 15 June 2007 Press Conferences Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), met today with Dr. Srgjan Kerim, who was elected President of the sixty-second session of the General Assembly on 24 May 2007. The Director-General congratulated Dr. Kerim on his election, and assured him of the full support of UNOG in the discharge of his…

CCW GROUP OF GOVERNMENTAL EXPERTS TO DISCUSS CLUSTER MUNITIONS

17 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home CCW GROUP OF GOVERNMENTAL EXPERTS TO DISCUSS CLUSTER MUNITIONS 14 June 2007 Press Release The Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) of the States Parties to the 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) will meet from 19 to 22 June 2007 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will be…

STATES PARTIES TO CCW PROTOCOL V TO PREPARE FOR FIRST CONFERENCE

17 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home STATES PARTIES TO CCW PROTOCOL V TO PREPARE FOR FIRST CONFERENCE 13 June 2007 Press Release The Preparatory Committee for the first Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War, annexed to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), will be held on 18 June 2007 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, pursuant to the decision of the Third Review Conference. The States Parties…

SUMMARY OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY ARCHBISHOP DESMOND MPILO TUTU AND PROFESSOR CHRISTINE CHINKIN ON HIGH-LEVEL FACT-FINDING MISSION TO BEIT HANOUN

17 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home SUMMARY OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY ARCHBISHOP DESMOND MPILO TUTU AND PROFESSOR CHRISTINE CHINKIN ON HIGH-LEVEL FACT-FINDING MISSION TO BEIT HANOUN 13 June 2007 Press Conferences “We have a passionate commitment to see a horrendous situation end,” said Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu at a press conference at the Palais des Nations this afternoon, referring to the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. “We believe that it is in the interest also of Israel that the…

SUMMARY OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SIMA SAMAR, CHAIRMAN, AND WALTER KÄLIN OF UN EXPERT GROUP ON SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN DARFUR

17 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home SUMMARY OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SIMA SAMAR, CHAIRMAN, AND WALTER KÄLIN OF UN EXPERT GROUP ON SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN DARFUR 13 June 2007 Press Conferences Sima Samar, Chairman of the United Nations Expert Group mandated at the last session of the Human Rights Council to address the human rights situation in Darfur, presented the Group’s report to the Council this morning. Ms. Samar, who is also Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Sudan, and Walter…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

17 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 12 June 2007 UN Geneva Press Briefing 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 the Human Rights Council's fifth session, the Conference on Disarmament, the International Labour Conference, the World Day Against Child Labour (12 June), south-Sudanese refugees in the Central African…