The Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva learned with shock today of the death of Anja Niedringhaus, an Associated Press photographer killed in Afghanistan where she was covering the upcoming elections. Based in Geneva, Ms. Niedringhaus had been accredited at the Palais des…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Michael Møller, Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, as Acting Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament. Mr. Møller was appointed Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva on 5…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Michael Møller of Denmark as Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Mr. Møller will replace Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. The Secretary-General is grateful for Mr. Tokayev’s outstanding…

Following are the opening remarks by Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, which he delivered on Friday, 29 June on the African Group Initiative – “Urgent Appeal for the Sahel”: “First of all, let me thank you…

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of United Nations Office at Geneva, made the following statement today before the Conference on Disarmament in his role as Secretary-General of the Conference and Personal Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General to the Conference: “As the…

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) and Prof. Rolf Heuer, Director-General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, today signed the first-ever cooperation agreement between the two organizations. The agreement will…

Article on the 50th Anniversary of the death of Dag Hammarskjöld by Director-General Kassym-Jomart Tokayev 50th Anniversary of the death of Dag HammarskjöldDag Hammarskjöld – a man of honour and dignity Fifty years ago, on 18 September 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash while on a peace…

Article on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 by Director-General Kassym-Jomart Tokayev The treacherous terrorist act carried out by Al Qaeda 10 years ago changed the course of world history. 9/11 changed humankind and brought understanding of the vulnerability of the world to the scourge of terrorism…

The Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Mr. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, presided over a solemn ceremony held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Monday, 27 June 2011 for the swearing-in of Judge Mary Faherty of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal (“Appeals Tribunal”). Judge…

The Director-General attended a literary evening held in honour of the poet and essayist Czeslaw Milosz who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. At the event, organized by the Permanent Missions of Lithuania, Poland and the United States of America, the Director-General…