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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, said Member States of the Council had lived up to the challenges that they were facing and they went to a final agreement on the institution building which was going to be a decision with historical dimensions, because it was the beginning of a new era…
14 years 2 months ago
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 of the secretariat since the last session in February 2007, on the distribution by Governments and international organisations of payments to successful claimants, the transparency of the distribution…
14 years 2 months ago
FOREIGN MINISTER OF MEXICO ENCOURAGES HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL TO REACH AGREEMENT THAT IS SATISFACTORY TO ALL
18 June 2007
Meeting Summaries
Patricia Espinosa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, today encouraged the Human Rights Council to crown the year’s intense work by reaching an agreement that would give satisfaction to all. Speaking on the last day of the first year of the Council, Ms. Espinosa said she was conscious of the complexity of the negotiation processes that had taken place in the Council until today. Being aware of this, she encouraged the Council to crown this year of intense work with an agreement would give satisfaction to all.The Council is…
14 years 2 months ago
PRESIDENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ANNOUNCES AGREEMENT ON FINAL TEXT ON ALL INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR COUNCIL
18 June 2007
Meeting Summaries
The President of the Human Rights Council announced today that agreement had been reached on a final text which encompassed all institutional arrangements for the Council, and invited Member States to take action on it on 19 June.
Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, the President of the Council, said he wished to express his apologies with regards to today’s uncertainty. He also thanked all of the delegations who had made it possible to announce that there was agreement on a final text which encompassed all the…
14 years 2 months ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
15 June 2007
Bi-Weekly 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. Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization,…
14 years 2 months ago
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 responsibilities. The Director-General extended an invitation to the President-elect to visit UNOG during his tenure. Mr. Ordzhonikidze also highlighted the wide-ranging contributions of the United Nations…
14 years 2 months ago
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 presided over by Ambassador Jânis Kârkliòð of Latvia, as decided by the Third Review Conference of the States Parties to the CCW (Geneva, 7-17 November 2006). The Conference decided to convene, as a matter of urgency, an intersessional meeting of…
14 years 2 months ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT HEARS MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY-GENERAL ON PRESIDENTIAL DECISION TO RESTART SUBSTANTIVE WORK
14 June 2007
Meeting Summaries
President of Conference Submits Complementary Presidential Statement Clarifying Decision; Egypt and Pakistan Express their Views
The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard a message from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in which he told Member States that the adoption of a Presidential draft decision to start substantive work in the Conference, supplemented if necessary to overcome any reservations, would have a positive impact on the international security atmosphere. At the same time, if the Conference…
14 years 2 months ago
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 to Protocol V have nominated Ambassador Johannes C. Landman of the Netherlands to chair the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom), subject to confirmation at its first plenary meeting.
In accordance with Article 10 (1) and (2) of Protocol V the High…
14 years 2 months ago
COUNCIL DISCUSSES MISSIONS TO OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, INCLUDING BEIT HANOUN, AND LEBANON
13 June 2007
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Council this morning took up its agenda item on follow-up to decisions of the Human Rights Council and discussed the urgent high-level fact-finding missions to the occupied Palestinian territories, including Beit Hanoun, and the updated report by the High Commissioner for Human Rights on follow-up to the report of the Commission of Inquiry on Lebanon.
Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba of Mexico, President of the Human Rights Council, said with regards to resolution 4/2 adopted at the Council’s fourth session in which he was…
