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UNRWA Press Conference
12 September 2012
Press Conference Announcement
UNRWA: Serving Palestine Refugees in the Middle East at a time of crises Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency Accompanied by: Matthias Burchard, Director, UNRWA Representative Office Geneva and to the EU, Brussels Lionello Boscardi, Chief, UNRWA Partnership Division Dustin Okazaki, Special Assistant to the Commissioner-General
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WHO/UNICEF Press Conference
12 September 2012
Press Conference Announcement
Release of the child mortality new estimates for 2011 (under embargo for Thursday 13 September at 00.01 GMT) Boerma Ties Director , Health Statistics and Informatics, WHO Elisabeth Mason, Director , Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, WHO Tessa Wardlaw, Chief, Monitoring and Statistics, UNICEF (Via phone and from New York )
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UNICEF Press Conference
12 September 2012
Press Conference Announcement
Teleconference on the release of ''Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed'" (under embargo for Thursday 13 September at 00.01 GMT) -- a UNICEF report on new global data on child mortality, and strategies for accelerating the decline in child deaths. Speakers on the teleconference: Geeta Rao Gupta, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF Dr. Mickey Chopra, Chief of Health, UNICEF Tessa Wardlaw, Chief, Monitoring and Statistics, UNICEF
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Presentation of Donation of Artwork from Slovak Republic
11 September 2012
| Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
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11 septembre 2012Presentation of Donation of Artwork from Slovak Republic
Remarks by Mr. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
United Nations Under-Secretary-General
Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva
“Presentation of Gift from Slovak Republic”
Palais des Nations, Czeck-Slovak Room
Tuesday, 11 September 2012 at 5:20 p.m.
Excellency President Gašparovič
Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is my honour to accept the gift of these beautiful statues, “Poetry” and “Music”, for the United Nations Office at Geneva. I would like to express my warmest appreciation to…
8 years 11 months ago
CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT CONTINUES DISCUSSION ON DRAFT ANNUAL REPORT
11 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Conference on Disarmament, which will close its 2012 session at the end of this week, today held a brief public plenary during which it adopted some parts of its draft annual report which will be presented to the sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly when it opens on 18 September 2012 in New York.
The President of the Conference, Ambassador Hellmut Hoffmann of Germany, said on August 23 a draft annual report had been circulated to all delegations, followed by several plenary discussions. Discussions were well advanced and a draft report…
8 years 11 months ago
COMMITTEE ON PROTECTION OF MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES CONSIDERS REPORT OF RWANDA
11 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families today completed its consideration of the initial report of Rwanda on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families.
Presenting the report, Soline Nyirahabimana, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Rwanda in Geneva, said that Rwanda was committed to co-operating with human rights mechanisms for the full enjoyment of human rights across the world and…
8 years 11 months ago
COUNCIL HOLDS INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE WITH SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT
11 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
Concludes General Debate on Reports of the High Commissioner, her Office and the Secretary-General
The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on children and armed conflict, and concluded its general debate on the annual report of the High Commissioner and the reports of her Office and the Secretary-General.
Ms. Zerrougui, presenting the report of her predecessor, Radhika Coomaraswamy, said that international justice…
8 years 11 months ago
REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
11 September 2012
Bi-Weekly Briefing
Yvette Morris, Chief of the Radio and Television Section of the Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Organization for Migration, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the World Health Organization.Human Rights Council
Rolando Gomez of the Human Rights Council said general debate continued this morning on the update of the…
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COUNCIL STARTS DIALOGUE WITH WORKING GROUP ON THE USE OF MERCENARIES AND SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE PROMOTION OF TRUTH
11 September 2012
Meeting Summaries
President of Slovakia Addresses Council
The Human Rights Council this afternoon heard an address by the President of Slovakia, Ivan Gašparovič. It also began a clustered interactive dialogue with the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination and the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, and concluded its interactive dialogue with the Special…
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REMARKS BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AT PRESS CONFERENCE WITH H.E. MS. EVELINE WIDMER-SCHLUMPF, PRESIDENT OF THE SWISS CONFEDERATION
11 September 2012
Press Conferences
Thank you President Widmer-Schlumpf, danke schön.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the media it is a great pleasure to see you. I am just going to wind down my visit to Switzerland. I am extremely honoured and happy to visit Switzerland on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Switzerland joining the United Nations.
Ten years ago yesterday was the day when Switzerland joined the United Nations. Over the last brief period of ten years Switzerland has shown strong leadership and commitment to peace, development…
