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…

Negotiations to Focus on New Instrument on Cluster Munitions Negotiations on a new instrument on cluster munitions by a Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be…

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

The United Nations Compensation Commission has made available today a total of $888,656,729 to three Governments for distribution to 16 successful claimants. Payment is being made in respect of 6 claims in category E (claims of corporations and public sector enterprises) and 10 claims in…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for and representatives of the UN Refugee Agency, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations, the World Health Organization, the Office for the…

Following are the remarks by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, which he delivered at a ceremony at the Palais des Nations today to observe United Nations Day and commemorate the sixty-third anniversary of the…

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

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, under the presidency of Deputy Permanent Representative Brauwers (Belgium), and the vice-presidency of Ambassador Puja (Indonesia) today concluded its sixty-sixth session. Representatives of Kuwait and Iraq addressed the fifteen…

Peter C. Black, the new Permanent Representative of Jamaica 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. Black had been serving as Jamaica’s High…

Georges Cohen, the new Permanent Representative of Grenada 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. Cohen has developed a career in the…