Following is the message of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Tenth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which was delivered on his behalf by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Under-Secretary-General and…

Following are the remarks of Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at a press conference at the Palais des Nations today on the renovation and refurbishment of Room XX, following a donation from the Government of Spain, to be called the Human Rights and…

Following is the message of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Second Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons’ Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War, which was delivered on his behalf today by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Under-…

Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), held a series of meetings over the past few weeks with the Geneva-based regional groups to brief their members on the Secretary-General's priorities as well as the main themes and outcome of the general debate…

Following are the opening remarks by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, delivered on Monday, 3 November at the Palais des Nations at the opening of an exhibition to mark the International Year of the Potato…

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 at the Palais des Nations today to observe United Nations Day and commemorate the sixty-third anniversary of the…

Following are the opening remarks by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, delivered today at a ceremony at the Palais des Nations commemorating the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: "It is my…

Following is the statement of Jan Beagle, the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and the Deputy Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, delivered today at the opening of the Fusion Energy Conference 2008 at the Palais des Nations: "It is a distinct honour and a pleasure to…

Following are the opening remarks by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), to a panel discussion this afternoon, organized by UNOG's Non-Governmental Liaison Office and the Spanish Society for…

Following are the opening remarks delivered by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at a panel event on parliaments and challenges to democracy organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union to mark the…