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Director-General's remarks at the occasion of the launch of the Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit
20 August 2007
| Sergei Ordzhonikidze
Speech
20 août 2007Director-General's remarks at the occasion of the launch of the Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit (en anglais seulement)
Remarks by Mr. Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze
United Nations Under-Secretary-General
Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
Launch of the Biological Weapons Convention
Implementation Support Unit
Palais des Nations, Bar Escargot (E-Building, 3rd floor)
Monday, 20 August 2007, at 17:30
Ambassador Khan
Mr. Duarte
Excellencies…
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NEW UNIT CREATED TO COMBAT BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
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Meeting Summaries
The international community's efforts against the threat of weapons of mass destruction are receiving a boost with the inauguration today of the Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit, based in the Geneva Branch of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.
The Sixth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in December 2006 decided to establish an Implementation Support Unit (ISU) to assist States parties in their efforts to strengthen the implementation of the Convention and to reduce the threat posed by biological weapons. The decision was a…
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Press Release
As decided by the Sixth Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (December 2006) an Implementation Support Unit has been established to assist States Parties in their efforts to strengthen the implementation of the Convention and reduce the threat posed by biological weapons. This small Unit is based in the Geneva Branch of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs.A ceremony to launch this initiative will be held on Monday, 20 August from 5.30 to 6.30 p.m. in the Palais des Nations in Geneva at the Bar Escargot, 3rd floor, E Building. Taking…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
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Bi-Weekly Briefing
Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for and Representatives of the Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and the International Organization for Migration. A spokesperson from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights was present but had no…
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Press Release
Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Costa Rica, New Zealand, Kyrgyzstan, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, and Republic of Korea
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its seventy-first session, issuing concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Costa Rica, New Zealand, Kyrgyzstan, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia and the Republic of Korea on how they implement the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial…
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Reinhard Schweppe, the new Permanent Representative of Germany 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. Schweppe had been serving, since March 2003, as Germany’s Ambassador to Poland. From 1999 to 2003, he was Head of the European Directorate-General of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. He served as Deputy Director General of the General European Department in the Foreign Office in…
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Meeting Summaries
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Ambassador Jürg Streuli of Switzerland, the President of the Conference on Disarmament, opened the meeting with a few concluding observations, as this was the last meeting of the Conference under the Swiss Presidency. Noting that each Presidency during this year had marked a stage in the process of adopting the proposal for a programme of work (CD/2007/L.1 and associated documents), he stressed the need for that process to continue…
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Meeting Summaries
Experts to Discuss Ways and Means to Enhance National Implementation and Regional Cooperation
The Meeting of Experts from States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will be held in Geneva from 20 to 24 August 2007. The Meeting of Experts is the first part of a four-year programme mandated by the 2006 Sixth Review Conference of the BWC aimed at strengthening the implementation of the Convention and improving its effectiveness as a practical barrier against the development or use of biological weapons.
The programme builds on the success of a…
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF FRANCE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
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Presentation of Credentials
Jean-Baptiste Mattéi, the new Permanent Representative of France 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. Mattéi had been serving as Director for Communication and Information and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France since 2005. From 2000 to 2004, he served as Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels. He was also…
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Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning adopted revised draft guidelines for the submission of specific reports presented by States parties under article 9 of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, as orally amended in discussions with Committee Experts.The Committee had decided to replace its previous reporting guidelines (CERD/C/70/Rev.5), adopted in 2000, with the present document, in order to take into consideration the guidelines on a common core…
