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CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONTINUES EFFORTS TO REACH CONSENSUS ON IMPLEMENTING ITS PROGRAMME OF WORK
27 August 2009
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament today continued its efforts to reach a consensus on implementing its programme of work, hearing statements by Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Australia, Cuba, China, Brazil, Bangladesh and the United Kingdom as well as from the Austrian Presidency of the Conference and from the Secretary of the Conference.
Pakistan said that immediately after the adoption of the programme of work, it had been confronted with "disappointing" and "alarming" manoeuvres even on procedural issues on the part of some delegations. It was…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
25 August 2009
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the World Food Programme. Geneva Activities
Ms. Ponomareva-Piquier said the Conference on Disarmament was holding a public plenary this morning starting 10 a.m.
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination was meeting in private…
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CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT DISCUSSES STALEMATE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAMME OF WORK AND OTHER ISSUES
25 August 2009
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard statements from Chile, Canada, Italy, France and the Austrian Presidency of the Conference on the prevailing stalemate in the implementation of the programme of work. Kazakhstan, Algeria and Russia also spoke on other issues.
Incoming President of the Conference, Ambassador Christian Strohal of Austria, said that this year had been an unusual one for the Conference. After more than a decade of stalemate they had been able to adopt a programme of work. But unusual to the eyes of the…
11 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF CHAD
21 August 2009
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined tenth to fifteenth periodic report of Chad on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Abderaman Djasnabaille, Minister for Human Rights and Promotion of Liberties of Chad, said that the Republic of Chad had celebrated, last 11 August, the forty-ninth anniversary of its independence. In all these years Chad had suffered a series of civil wars and they now had had three…
11 years 11 months ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
21 August 2009
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by spokespersons for and representatives of the World Health Organization, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the World Food Programme.Secretary-General’s Statements
Ms. Ponomareva-Piquier said that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had yesterday congratulated the women and men of Afghanistan on the holding of Presidential and Provincial Council…
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COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF ETHIOPIA
20 August 2009
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined seventh to sixteenth periodic report of Ethiopia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Fisseha Yimer, Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, said that Ethiopia’s report was long overdue and that the Government genuinely regretted this situation which had been created mainly due to the lack of technical capacity and resources. Thanks to…
11 years 11 months ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONTINUES SEARCH FOR CONSENSUS ON MODALITIES TO IMPLEMENT ITS AGREED PROGRAMME OF WORK
20 August 2009
Meeting Summaries
Many Delegations Express Profound Disappointment at Procedural Faultfinding and Warn of Return to Previous Situation of Impasse
This morning the Conference on Disarmament heard statements from 16 national delegations, as well as from Sweden on behalf of the European Union and from Australian Ambassador Caroline Millar, the outgoing President, in which all commented on the central issue of achieving consensus on a procedural decision on the implementation of a programme of work for 2009.
Pakistan observed that on 10 August it…
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BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION EXPERTS TO MEET IN GENEVA FROM 24 TO 28 AUGUST
20 August 2009
Meeting Summaries
Experts to Discuss Promotion of Capacity Building in the Fields of Disease Surveillance, Detection, Diagnosis and Containment
The 2009 Meeting of Experts from States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) will be held in Geneva from 24 to 28 August 2009. This year's Meeting of Experts is the third 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…
12 years ago
World Humanitarian Day
19 August 2009
| Sergei Ordzhonikidze
Speech
19 août 2009World Humanitarian Day
Remarks by Mr. Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze
United Nations Under-Secretary-General
Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
World Humanitarian Day
Parc des Bastions, Geneva
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Distinguished speakers
Excellencies
Ladies and Gentlemen
Dear Friends:
It is a pleasure, on behalf of the United Nations family, to welcome you to the first World Humanitarian Day, which we are celebrating in Geneva – the world’s capital of humanitarian action – and worldwide.
Allow me, at the outset, to thank our Host Country for their contribution to…
12 years ago
COMMITTEE ON ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CONSIDERS REPORT OF THE PHILIPPINES
19 August 2009
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined fifteenth to twentieth periodic report of the Philippines on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Presenting the report, Erlinda Basilio, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations Office at Geneva, said that throughout their history, the Filipino people and Government had contributed to the struggle against discrimination through their own national quest…
