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…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also addressed by Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health…

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-…

Dante Martinelli, the new Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Martinelli had been serving since…

The Second Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) is being held on 10 and 11 November 2008 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Ambassador Edvardas Borisovas of Lithuania was designated by…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva chaired the meeting which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s Programme, the…

Issues Conclusions on Reports of Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Myanmar, Portugal, Slovenia and Uruguay The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon concluded its forty-second session and issued its concluding…

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…