Ladies and Gentlemen,I called this meeting in Geneva at this critical stage in the crisis to bring the international community and the countries with influence together – to take concrete action. We came here to reach a serious agreement on how we could help Syria at this grim and brutal time…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Food Programme, the UN Refugee Agency and the…

Following is a statement issued today by Kofi Annan, the Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria: “The Action Group for Syria will convene at the Ministerial level this Saturday, the 30th of June, in Geneva. Today, I have sent invitations to the Foreign Ministers of…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the International Labour Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the UN Refugee Agency…

Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, It has been a long time that I haven’t been back in this room but it is good to meet you here this afternoon. And I am happy to be able to join you this afternoon with General Mood whom you all know. I am pleased that he could join us. He is on his way back from…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, the World Meteorological Organization, the Economic Commission for Europe, the International Labour Organization, the World Trade…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the International Organization for Migration, the Human Rights Council, the UN Refugee Agency, the World Food…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the Economic Commission for Europe, the Human Rights Council, the International Organization for Migration, the…

Shalva Tsiskarashvili, the new Permanent Representative of Georgia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Tsiskarashvili had been serving…

The 2012 Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, organized by the United Nations Department of Public Information in cooperation with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, closed in Geneva, Switzerland this afternoon. The general feeling of the Seminar was that the two-State…