7 years ago
UN GENEVA AND HUMANITARIAN PARTNERS COMMEMORATE WORLD HUMANITARIAN DAY WITH HIGH-LEVEL DEBATE AND PLAQUE UNVEILING CEREMONY
19 August 2014
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2013 Set New Record for Violence against Aid Groups with Attacks on 460 Aid Workers, including 155 Killed
As the United Nations Office at Geneva, together with Geneva-based humanitarian partners, commemorate World Humanitarian Day today, new figures show that the number of aid workers killed, kidnapped and seriously wounded has reached the highest number ever recorded.
“All too often our humanitarian colleagues have paid with their lives for seeking to help those in need of assistance, targeted by terrorists trying…
7 years 2 months ago
TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY UN SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON AT THE PALAIS DES NATIONS IN GENEVA ON 17 JUNE 2014
17 June 2014
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Mesdames et messieurs,
Bonjour. Good morning. Je suis ravi d’être de retour à Genève. Et c’est un plaisir de vous revoir tous ici.
Je suis arrivé hier soir de la Bolivie où j’ai assisté au sommet du Groupe des 77 et de la Chine. Je suis ici à Genève pour les évènements marquant le 50ème anniversaire de la CNUCED (Conférence des Nations Unies sur le Commerce et le Développement).
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Later today, I will travel to Lausanne to meet with International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and other…
7 years 2 months ago
STATEMENT OF MR MICHAEL MOLLER, ACTING SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT
10 June 2014
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1319th Plenary Meeting of the Conference on Disarmament
Mr. President,
Distinguished Representatives to the Conference
Ladies and Gentlemen
Thank you for allowing me to address you again three weeks after my 20 May statement in which I offered a number of suggestions aimed at helping to unblock the protracted deadlock in the Conference and thus, hopefully, facilitating the resumption of substantive negotiations.
I listened very carefully to your views on my proposals. It was a very rich and encouraging debate. I was gratified by the positive spirit…
7 years 3 months ago
ACTING DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG URGES CCW MEETING TO TAKE BOLD ACTION TOWARDS ADDRESSING LETHAL AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS SYSTEMS
13 May 2014
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Following are the opening remarks made today by Michael Møller, Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems at the Palais des Nations in Geneva:
“I have the pleasure of welcoming you to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and to the United Nations in the city of Geneva. I congratulate CCW States Parties and Ambassador Simon-Michel for taking on the emerging and important issue of…
7 years 4 months ago
STATEMENT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG ON PHOTOGRAPHER ACCREDITED TO THE PALAIS DES NATIONS, KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
04 April 2014
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The Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva learned with shock today of the death of Anja Niedringhaus, an Associated Press photographer killed in Afghanistan where she was covering the upcoming elections. Based in Geneva, Ms. Niedringhaus had been accredited at the Palais des Nations since 2002, and was highly respected among her colleagues as a dedicated and accomplished award-winning professional. The Director-General recalled the Secretary-General's statement yesterday denouncing violence by any group in…
7 years 6 months ago
Transcript of press conference by Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS), Lakhdar Brahimi, Geneva, 15 February 2014
15 February 2014
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JSRS: Good day to you all, thank you for coming on a Saturday. We’ve just held our last meeting for this session. It was as laborious as all the meetings we have had but we agreed on an agenda for the next round, when it does take place. The agenda is of four points that we have been discussing forever now - but I had proposed before the beginning of the second round, in writing to the two parties, and that is that: one, violence and terrorism; two, the TGB [Transitional Governing Body]; three, national institutions…
7 years 6 months ago
Transcript of press conference by Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS) Lakhdar Brahimi, Geneva, 13 February 2014
13 February 2014
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Near verbatim transcript of press conference
by Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS) Lakhdar Brahimi
Geneva, 13 February 2014JSRS : Good evening everyone. We just had a two hours meeting with Wendy Sherman, Under-Secretary of State from the United States and Gennady Gatilov, Deputy Foreign Minister from the Russian Federation. These are our regular tri-partite meetings. They are very useful and important for us to keep the two initiating States, the two States that have first appealed for this…
7 years 6 months ago
Transcript of press conference by Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS) Lakhdar Brahimi, Geneva, 11 February 2014
11 February 2014
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(Near verbatim transcript)JSRS : Good afternoon everyone. I’m not sure that we’re going to meet everyday as we did the previous time, but I will certainly come every time I have something to tell you. Today I don’t have much to tell you except that the beginning of this week is as laborious as it was the first week. We are not making much progress. One of your colleagues said that I needed tons of patience. I have them. So, we will do our very best to make this process take off. Of course, for it to really…
7 years 6 months ago
Transcript of press conference by Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS) Lakhdar Brahimi, Geneva, 30 January 2014
30 January 2014
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(Near verbatim transcript)
JSRS : Good afternoon everyone. Had another fairly long meeting this morning, where we discussed a very sensitive and important subject that is the security situation in Syria and terrorism. I think a lot has been said about it. There is of course agreement that terrorism does exist and it’s a very, very serious problem inside Syria, but perhaps not yet an agreement on how to deal with it, and also, I think it is evident to everyone that to tackle seriously the issue of security is…
7 years 6 months ago
Transcript of press conference by Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS) Lakhdar Brahimi, Geneva, 29 January 2014
29 January 2014
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(Near verbatim transcript)JSRS : Good evening. Had a long day, with a long session in the morning and two shorter sessions in the afternoon, one with each delegation. In the morning, the two delegations were with us. In the afternoon they came one after the other. We talked about the TGB [transitional governing body], but of course it’s a very, very preliminary discussion. And, more generally, of what each side expects, and so on. We also tried to see what is happening over the humanitarian issues in particular…
