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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
25 April 2017
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Health Organization, the…
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Press Stake-out by the UN Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, with the Federal Councilor, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation, Mr. Didier Burkhalter (in French)
24 April 2017
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Berne, 24 avril 2017
Secrétaire général: Le rapport entre les Nations Unies et la Suisse est pour moi une question politique et une affaire de cœur. Question politique parce qu'aujourd'hui la Suisse est un pilier fondamental du…
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21 April 2017
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and the World Trade Organization. United Nations…
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UNITED NATIONS CHILD RIGHTS COMMITTEE URGES ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PLIGHT OF SYRIA’S CHILDREN
20 April 2017
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GENEVA (20 April 2017) – The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called for accountability for the reprehensible acts being committed against children in Syria.
“Yet again, children are bearing the brunt of horrific attacks in Syria,” said Committee Chair Benyam Dawit Mezmur, in…
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Staffan de Mistura Special Envoy for Syria and Jan Egeland UN Senior Advisor Stakeout after the HTF Meeting
20 April 2017
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Staffan de Mistura:
Good afternoon,
We will do it like this, I will first do a briefing and then take some questions and then my friend Jan Egeland will do his own about the humanitarian side, so that we don’t confuse questions between political and humanitarian.
But let me say anyway one thing about the humanitarian side: We…
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18 April 2017
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the World Health Organization.Migrant rescues
Leonard Doyle, for the…
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Statementattributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on Syria
15 April 2017
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We condemn the attack today in Rasheedin, west Aleppo, on5,000 evacuees travelling from the towns of Foah and Kefraya to government-controlled areas. We express our condolences to the families of the victims of the incident and wish those injured a speedy recovery.
The evacuations were being conducted in accordance with the agreement reached pursuant to the Four…
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COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF MIGRANT WORKERS CLOSES ITS TWENTY-SIXTH SESSION
13 April 2017
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Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Situation in Bangladesh, Jamaica and Nigeria
The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families concluded this afternoon its twenty-sixth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the…
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COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES CLOSES ITS SEVENTEENTH SESSION
12 April 2017
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The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon closed its seventeenth session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Cyprus, Honduras, Iran, Jordan and the Republic of Moldova on how they implement the…
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Special Envoy for Syria Mr. Staffan de Mistura’s Stakeout after Briefing the Security Council
12 April 2017
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Good afternoon.
You have being obviously listening because this has been an open meeting, so you're not going to reframe or re-paraphrase what had been said by the different delegations.
Let me summarise it with, or summarise my own message based on what we have heard with the seven points:
Point number one, stakes are high, no doubt, after the…
