Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by the Spokespersons for Office for the World Health Organization, World Food Programme, United Nations Refugee Agency, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and United Nations Children’s Fund. Central African Republic (CAR) Adrian Edwards, for the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), informed that, based on monitoring by the UNHCR-led Protection Cluster, more than 15,000 people in 18 locations in the northwest and southwest of the country were…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, International Organization for Migration, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations Refugee Agency and World Meteorological Organization.Central African Republic / CameroonCorinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, said that journalists had received a press release on the conclusion of the mission…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Programme, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the World Health Organization.Central African Republic Ms. Momal-Vanian announced that Ms. Valerie Amos, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator was in the Central African Republic from today until Thursday on a joint mission with the Executive Director of UN…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service at Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and representatives of the Human Rights Council, the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Ms. Momal-Vanian welcomed students from the University of Business and…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Trade Centre, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Geneva Activities Ms. Momal-Vanian said the Conference on Disarmament was holding its regular public plenary this morning.…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Refugee Agency and World Trade Organization.Syria Answering questions, Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) in Geneva, said that the next round of talks in the Geneva Conference on Syria would start on Monday 10 February at the Palais des Nations. The…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, United Nations Children’s Programme, United Nations Population Fund, World Food Programme, World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization.Syria Elisabeth Byrs, for the World Food Programme (WFP), announced that WFP started airlifting today enough food to feed close to 30,000 displaced people for a month, from Iraq to Qamishli…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by the Spokespersons for Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Health Organization, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the World Food Programme. Syria Elisabeth Byrs, for the World Food Programme (WFP), provided an update, appealing on behalf of WFP to all parties to the conflict to grant unimpeded access to all civilians throughout the country. WFP needed continuous and sustainable access to affected people in order to…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing which was also attended by the Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Programme, World Food Programme, World Health Organization, International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Humanitarian aid access in Syria Elisabeth Byrs, for the World Food Programme (WFP), said the United Nations Hub in Homs was preparing for an interagency convoy to deliver…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief, Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the International Organization for Migration. Summary Geneva Conference on Syria Ms Vellucci, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, announced that today, at 11 a.m. at the Palais des Nations Joint Special Representative for…