Following are the remarks delivered by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at a ceremony this afternoon at the United Nations Memorial, Ariana Park, to mark the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers…

Following are the remarks delivered by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at a roundtable discussion held at the Palais des Nations this afternoon on the occasion of the International Day of United Nations…

Following is the statement delivered today by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the First African Forum for Dialogue, held in Geneva under the theme of “Africa's Development: Whose Responsibility?”: “C'est…

Following are the remarks by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, which he delivered today at a conference on “Overcoming Nuclear Dangers” being held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome on 16 and 17 April…

Following are the remarks by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, which he delivered at a ceremony today at the Palais des Nations marking the annual observance of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994…

Following is the keynote address delivered today by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to a conference at the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in Brussels entitled “Belgium in the UN Security Council 2007-…

Following are the opening remarks delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at an event held at the Palais des Nations today commemorating International Women's Day 2009. The theme of the commemoration event was "The Economics of the Financial…

Director-General of UNOG Opens Lecture, Nobel Prize Laureates Shirin Ebadi and Wole Soyinka Participate More than 1,000 people attended the Second Geneva Lecture on the question “Are Human Rights Universal?”, held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Wednesday 10 December 2008 to mark Human…

Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, and Theodor Winkler, the Director of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, co-chaired on 26 November 2008 a joint seminar entitled “Meeting the security challenges of today while upholding…

Following is the message of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the 2008 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which was delivered on his behalf by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at…