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Press Statement by Office of the Special Envoy for Syria on the resumption of intra-Syrian talks

7 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Press Statement by Office of the Special Envoy for Syria on the resumption of intra-Syrian talks 17 June 2017 Press Conferences The Special Envoy for Syria wishes to announce he will convene a seventh round of the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva. The target date for arrival of invitees is 9 July, with the round beginning on 10 July. He intends to convene further rounds of talks in August and in September. As in previous rounds, invitations will be sent in keeping with…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

7 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 16 June 2017 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the International Organization for Migration and the World Health Organization.Human Rights…

Press Statement by the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria

7 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Press Statement by the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria 16 June 2017 Press Conferences The Office of the Special Envoy for Syria (OSE) has completed two days of joint technical meetings at the United Nations in Geneva with opposition experts from the High Negotiations Committee, the Cairo platform and the Moscow platform. These meetings took place in the context of the consultative process on constitutional and legal issues established by the Special Envoy during the…

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CYPRUS PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA

7 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CYPRUS PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA 16 June 2017 Presentation of Credentials George C. Kasoulides, the new Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Kasoulides had been serving as the Ambassador of Cyprus to the…

Transcript of press briefing by Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria, after Humanitarian Access Task Force meeting

7 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Transcript of press briefing by Jan Egeland, Special Advisor to the Special Envoy for Syria, after Humanitarian Access Task Force meeting 15 June 2017 Press Conferences JE: Thank you very much, we just finished a meeting of the Humanitarian Task Force of International Syria Support Group. We laid out a number of very worrying trends in Syria and especially bad things that keep affecting the civilian population in this war that has lasted longer than the second world war and…

Transcript of stakeout by United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Oslo, 14 June 2017

7 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home Transcript of stakeout by United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Oslo, 14 June 2017 14 June 2017 Press Conferences SdM: True, this is not the most important perhaps job in the world, but one of the most complicated at the moment. I was trying during, and I’m not revealing a secret, I was trying to convey to those who are participating to this mediation seminar, which by the way is extremely helpful, because comparing notes informally for people like…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

7 years 10 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 13 June 2017 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Telecommunications Union, the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 09 June 2017 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service at the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Organization for Migration, and the…

REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE 06 June 2017 UN Geneva Press Briefing Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service at the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency and the World Health Organisation, and the representatives of the International Labour Organisation, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations…

COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD CLOSES ITS SEVENTY-FIFTH SESSION

7 years 11 months ago Breadcrumb Home COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD CLOSES ITS SEVENTY-FIFTH SESSION 02 June 2017 Press Release Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Antigua and Barbuda, Bhutan, Cameroon, Lebanon, Mongolia, Qatar, Romania and the United States The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon closed its seventy-fifth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Antigua and…