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…

The 2012 Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East held two panel discussions to explore the impact of the Arab Spring on media coverage of the question of Palestine and to examine the role of women’s activism and the media in Israeli-Palestinian peace and the wider region on 12 June in the…

Alessandra Vellucci, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Joint Special Envoy (JSE) of the UN and the League of Arab States for the Syrian Crisis, the UN Conference on Trade…

The 2012 Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East opened today at the International Geneva Conference Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The Seminar will focus on the role of the media in covering different aspects of recent events in the Middle East, especially the Arab Spring, and how they relate…

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 World Trade Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Food Programme, the UN…

The three Co-chairs of the Geneva International Discussions, Philippe Lefort, European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and for the crisis in Georgia; Antti Turunen, United Nations Representative to the Geneva International Discussions and the Joint Incident Prevention and…

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 Labour Organization, the International Organization for Migration and the UN Refugee Agency.…

Nanguyalai Tarzi, the new Permanent Representative of Afghanistan 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. Tarzi had been serving as…

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 Human Rights Council, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International…

Apologies for keeping you waiting for so long but as you know, I was briefing the Security Council and it was a long discussion because it is an important topic and so here I am. My briefing focused on the latest efforts of the Joint Special Envoy concerning the situation in Syria. And that…