Following is the statement by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at the event entitled “Preventing and Mitigating Natural Disasters” to commemorate World Meteorological Day 2006: “It is a great pleasure…

Following is the statement by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, which he delivered at the opening of the exhibition entitled “Forces of Nature” on the occasion of World Meteorological Day 2006: “It is a special…

M. Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Secrétaire général adjoint des Nations Unies et Directeur général de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève, a fait aujourd'hui la déclaration suivante à l'occasion de la Journée internationale de la Francophonie et de l'inauguration d'une exposition sur Léopold Sédar Senghor…

Following is the statement by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, which he delivered at the Centennial Anniversary of the American Jewish Committee, held today at the Palais des Nations: “It is a great pleasure…

Following is the speech delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at the opening of the exhibition entitled “Art from Timor-Leste” at the Palais des Nations on Wednesday, 15 March: “It is a great pleasure…

Following is the message of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the sixty-first session of the Economic Commission for Europe, which is being held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 21 to 23 February. The message was delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the…

Following are the remarks by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the thousandth plenary meeting of the Conference on Disarmament held today at the Palais des Nations: “The 1000th Plenary Meeting…

Following is the opening statement by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the ceremony held at the Palais des Nations on 27 January to mark the first International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims…

Following is the message of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the annual "staff evening" organized by the Staff Coordinating Council at the Palais des Nations on 28 October, which was delivered on his behalf by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-…

Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), and Theodor Winkler, the Director of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), today co-chaired the third joint UNOG-DCAF seminar, which was entitled "Security and Post-Conflict…