Adolf Ogi, the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, this afternoon gave a press conference at the Palais des Nations in Geneva in which he launched a call for coordinated action to the world of sport in response to the recent Indian Ocean...

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which dealt mainly with the tsunami relief efforts. Participating in the briefing were Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of...

Yvette Stevens, the Assistant Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Director of the Geneva office of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), speaking at a press conference this afternoon at the Palais des Nations following an information meeting organized by OCHA for the...

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, chaired the briefing which concentrated on the latest developments concerning the tsunami aid efforts. Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United...