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Transcript of Press Stakeout by UN Senior Adviser, Jan Egeland
15 November 2018
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JE: Thank you very much, we just completed a Humanitarian Task Force meeting. It was a meeting where we had some rare moments of feeling that we achieved, through humanitarian diplomacy, what we have so many times before failed to.
First, Rukban, since January we have tried and failed to reach this most desolate place on earth, where 40,000-50,000 civilians have lingered,…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
13 November 2018
UN Geneva Press Briefing
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Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization.Human Rights CouncilRhéal LeBlanc, for the…
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09 November 2018
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Michele Zaccheo, Chief of the Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the World…
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COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN CONCLUDES SEVENTY-FIRST SESSION
09 November 2018
Press Release
Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Nepal, Republic of the Congo, the Bahamas, Samoa, Mauritius, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded today its seventy-…
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GOVERNING COUNCIL OF UNITED NATIONS COMPENSATION COMMISSION CONCLUDES ITS EIGHTY-FIFTH SESSION
07 November 2018
Press Release
The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the Presidency of Poland, today concluded its eighty-fifth session. Delegations from Iraq, including the Head of the Committee of Financial Experts, which is responsible for the oversight of Iraq's oil revenues, and Kuwait’s Public Authority for the Assessment of Compensation…
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE
06 November 2018
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Michele Zaccheo, Chief of the Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and by spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human…
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EIGHTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE UNCC GOVERNING COUNCIL TO BE HELD ON 7 NOVEMBER
06 November 2018
Press Release
The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission will hold its eighty-fifth session on 7 November 2018 under the Presidency of Ambassador Zbigniew Czech (Permanent Representative of Poland). Delegations from Iraq, including representatives from Iraq’s Committee of Financial Experts, and Kuwait will address the Council at its opening plenary session…
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HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CLOSES ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOURTH SESSION IN GENEVA
02 November 2018
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Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of Belarus, Sudan, Guinea, Belize and Bulgaria
The Human Rights Committee this afternoon closed its one hundred and twenty-fourth session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Belarus, Sudan, Guinea, Belize and Bulgaria. The scheduled consideration of the…
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02 November 2018
UN Geneva Press Briefing
Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, the World Food Programme and the…
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NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BARBADOS PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
02 November 2018
Presentation of Credentials
Chad Blackman, the new Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Mr. Blackman is an international trade advisor and attorney, working in the private sector, who…
