Xanana Gusmao, President of Timor-Leste, speaking at a press conference after the screening of a film about Timor-Leste’s independence struggle, building the new nation and the concept of forgiveness for the perpetrators of the atrocities of the past, said it was a great pleasure for him to come to…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from the Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Meteorological Organization, the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the World…

Arsene M. Balihuta, the new Permanent Representative of Uganda to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzonikidze, the Director-General to the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Balihuta had been working since 1992…

Levan Mikeladze, the new Permanent Representative of Georgia 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. Mikeladze had been serving as Georgia’s…

Don MacKay, the new Permanent Representative of New Zealand 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. MacKay had been serving as Permanent…

Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros, Chairman of the sixty-second session of the Commission on Human Rights, held a press briefing at noon today at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on the subject of the Commission’s decision this morning to suspend its work for a week pending consultations in the United…

Slobodan Vukčević, the new Permanent Representative of Serbia and Montenegro 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. Vukčević had been…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…

Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Mexico, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guatemala, El Salvador, Uzbekistan, Guyana and Botswana The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its sixty-eighth session, issuing its concluding observations and…

The Governing Council of the United Nations Compensation Commission, meeting under the Presidency of Ambassador Tassos Kriekoukis (Greece), today concluded its fifty-ninth session. Representatives of Kuwait, Iraq, and India addressed the fifteen-member Governing Council at its opening plenary…