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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BURUNDI PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
09 July 2008
Presentation of Credentials
Pierre Barusasiyeko, the new Permanent Representative of Burundi 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, in February 2008, Mr. Barusasiyeko was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Burundi. From 2005 to 2008, he was serving as Counsellor to the Department of Secondary Education of the Ministry of Education. Mr. Barusasiyeko had also previously served as a Counsellor to…
13 years 1 month ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF VENEZUELA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
09 July 2008
Presentation of Credentials
Germán Mundaraín Hernández, the new Permanent Representative of Venezuela 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. Mundaraín Hernández had been serving in the post of National Human Rights Ombudsman, following his election by the National Assembly of Venezuela for the period 2000 to 2007. In 2006, he also served as a member of the International Coordinating Committee of National…
13 years 1 month ago
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF AUSTRIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG
09 July 2008
Presentation of Credentials
Christian Strohal, the new Permanent Representative of Austria 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, from 2003 to 2008, Mr. Strohal was the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. From 2000 until 2003, Mr. Strohal was the Austrian Ambassador to Luxembourg. Earlier in his career, from 1988 to 1992, Mr.…
13 years 1 month ago
Opening Remarks by the Director-General of UNOG to United Nations – Organization of the Islamic Conference General Meeting
08 July 2008
| Sergei Ordzhonikidze
Speech
8 juillet 2008Opening Remarks by the Director-General of UNOG to United Nations – Organization of the Islamic Conference General Meeting (en anglais seulement)
"It is a distinct honour to open, on behalf of the United Nations Secretary-General, this regular General Meeting of cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference secretariats and specialized agencies. I am particularly pleased to welcome this morning to the Palais des Nations the delegation of the…
13 years 1 month ago
OPENING REMARKS BY DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG TO UNITED NATIONS- ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE GENERAL MEETING
08 July 2008
Press Conferences
Following are the remarks by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, which he delivered this morning at the Palais des Nations before the General Meeting of cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
"It is a distinct honour to open, on behalf of the United Nations Secretary-General, this regular General Meeting of cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference…
13 years 1 month ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
08 July 2008
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from spokespersons and representatives from the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Population Fund and the Universal Postal Union.Secretary-General’s Travels
Ms. Ponomareva-Piquier said that yesterday the Secretary-General had given a joint press conference together with Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank, at the end of…
13 years 1 month ago
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS REPORT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
08 July 2008
Meeting Summaries
The Human Rights Committee has considered the sixth periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on how that State party is fulfilling its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Rowena Collins-Rice, Director General for Democracy and Constitutional Law of the United Kingdom, introducing the report, said that the Human Rights Act was a vital means of transforming the United Kingdom’s culture and legislative reforms. While the Human Rights Act had been subjected to hostility…
13 years 1 month ago
Remarks by the Director-General of UNOG to the 2008 Tripartite Meeting
07 July 2008
| Sergei Ordzhonikidze
Speech
7 juillet 2008Remarks by the Director-General of UNOG to the 2008 Tripartite Meeting (en anglais seulement)
It is a pleasure to be here and to address you today, as we start our annual Tripartite Meeting. The new format of this Meeting will compel us to be even more concise and results-oriented than in the past, and I look forward to our frank and constructive discussions.
Allow me at the outset to thank Secretary-General Terry Davis for his hospitality and for suggesting this timely topic for our meeting. As we gather here in this most European…
13 years 1 month ago
CCW EXPERTS MEETING ON EXPLOSIVE REMNANTS OF WAR CONCLUDES, EVALUATING FIRST YEAR OF PROTOCOL'S OPERATION
07 July 2008
Meeting Summaries
The 2008 Meeting of Experts of the States parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War, annexed to the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), concluded on Friday, 4 July 2008 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Ambassador Edvardas Borisovas of Lithuania, President-designate of the Second Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V (10 and 11 November 2008) remarked that participants had succeeded in making the best use of the gathering to implement a flexible and stable framework for…
13 years 1 month ago
REMARKS BY UNOG DIRECTOR-GENERAL TO THE 2008 TRIPARTITE MEETING
07 July 2008
Press Conferences
Following are the remarks by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, which he delivered this morning at the Tripartite Meeting with the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, being held today at the Palais de l'Europe in Strasbourg.
"It is a pleasure to be here and to address you today, as we start our annual Tripartite Meeting. The new format of this Meeting will compel us to be even more concise and results-oriented than in the past, and I look forward…
