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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF URUGUAY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
25 June 2007
Presentation of Credentials
The new Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Alejandro Artucio Rodriguez, today presented his credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Sergei Ordzhonikidze.
Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Artucio Rodriguez served as Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations in New York from 2004 to 2006. During 2000, he was an international human rights consultant. From 1991 to 1999, he was a Senior Legal Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean at the…
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HOLDS ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING TO DISCUSS MODALITIES OF WORK
22 June 2007
Meeting Summaries
Hears from Chairperson of Meeting of Special Procedures, Announces Preparatory Committee for Durban Review Conference to be Postponed
The Human Rights Council today held an organizational meeting during which it discussed its modalities of work, heard from the Chairperson of the meeting of Special Procedures and announced the postponement of the Preparatory Committee for the Durban Review Conference.
The President of the Council, Ambassador Doru Romulus Costea of Romania, outlined the programme of work for the Council in the months to come, including modalities…
14 years 1 month ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
22 June 2007
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons for the United Nations Population Fund, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the UN Refugee Agency, the World Trade Organization and the International Organization for Migration.Geneva Activities
Ms. Heuzé announced launches of three major reports that would be held in Geneva in the coming week…
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PRESIDENT OF CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT SAYS SOME CAPITALS NEED MORE TIME TO CONSIDER PROPOSAL TO START SUBSTANTIVE WORK
21 June 2007
Meeting Summaries
China, Pakistan, Iran, United Kingdom, Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Ukraine and Japan Address Conference
The President of the Conference on Disarmament, Ambassador Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier of Sweden, said today that some capitals needed more time to consider the draft Presidential proposal to restart substantive work in the Conference, and two other documents, and this time should be given.
In the meantime, the President said, the three documents remained on the table. She recalled that last week, the Secretary…
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HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS THREE RESOLUTIONS ON LEBANON, OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY AND DARFUR
20 June 2007
Meeting Summaries
Concludes Discussion on President’s Text on Institution Building in the Council
The Human Rights Council this morning adopted by consensus three resolutions on follow-up to the report of the Commission of Inquiry on Lebanon, follow-up to Human Rights Council resolutions S-1/1 and S-3/1 on the occupied Palestinian territory, and follow-up to the resolution on the situation of human rights in Darfur.
In the resolution on the report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the follow-up to the report of the Commission of…
14 years 1 month ago
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HOPES SPIRIT OF COOPERATION AND MUTUAL RESPECT WILL REMAIN HALLMARK OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
20 June 2007
Meeting Summaries
Council Adopts Report of Fifth Session
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour told the Human Rights Council this afternoon that she wished to extend her appreciation to all those who had contributed to launching the Council on a consensual basis. Despite the potentially divisive issues that the Council had confronted, the spirit of cooperation and mutual respect would, she hoped, remain the hallmark of the Human Rights Council. Addressing an organizational meeting of the second cycle of…
14 years 2 months ago
PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR FIRST CONFERENCE OF CCW PROTOCOL V AGREES TO RECOMMENDED ANNUAL CONFERENCES
19 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) concluded its work on 18 June 2007 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The one-day meeting organized at the initiative of a majority of the States parties to the protocol, succeeded to adopt a procedural report which contained a number of substantive recommendations to the First Conference for its adoption.The Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) was…
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PRESIDENT OF CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT URGES MEMBER STATES TO DECIDE ON PRESIDENTIAL DECISION TO RESTART SUBSTANTIVE WORK
19 June 2007
Meeting Summaries
India Indicates Preference for Unitary Document rather than Three Separate Statements
Ambassador Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier of Sweden, the President of the Conference on Disarmament, this morning called on Member States to decide by 21 June whether or not to adopt Presidential draft decision CD/2007/L.1, which aims to start substantive work at the Conference, as well as a complementary Presidential statement and a draft decision relating to it. Presidential draft decision CD/2007/L.1 calls for the appointment of four…
14 years 2 months ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
19 June 2007
Bi-Weekly 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 Nations Children’s Fund, the International Telecommunication Union and the International Organization for Migration.Human Rights Council
Ms. Heuzé said journalists who stayed at the Palais until midnight last night…
14 years 2 months ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL HEARS PRAISE AND CRITICISM ABOUT ADOPTED TEXT ON INSTITUTION BUILDING OF COUNCIL
19 June 2007
Meeting Summaries
Elects New President and Bureau Members
The Human Rights Council this afternoon elected the new President and officers of the Bureau of the Council for its second cycle and then heard both praise and criticism from speakers about the President’s text on the institution building of the Council which was agreed upon at midnight yesterday.
The Council began the meeting by hearing a brief statement by the outgoing President, Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico. It then elected by acclamation Ambassador Doru Romulus Costea of Romania…
