Representatives of 164 States parties, observer States and dozens of international and civil society organizations are gathering in Geneva between 26 and 30 November 2015 for the Seventeenth Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the Office of the High…

Sumbue Antas, the new Permanent Representative of Vanuatu to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Antas served as Director, Department of External…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…

Oxana Domenti, the new Permanent Representative of the Republic of Moldova to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Michael Møller, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Domenti had been serving as an…

Thank you, Mr President, and good to be with all of you 1. Since my last time I briefed you, the Secretary-General had announced that Mr Geir Pedersen of Norway, a good friend of mine - and an excellent choice if I may say - will be the new UN Special Envoy for Syria, following my own announcement…

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Japan and Portugal, and Follow-Up Observations on Mexico The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon concluded its fifteenth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Japan and Portugal, and…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Meteorological…

JE: Thank you very much, we just completed a Humanitarian Task Force meeting. It was a meeting where we had some rare moments of feeling that we achieved, through humanitarian diplomacy, what we have so many times before failed to. First, Rukban, since January we have tried and failed to reach…

REV.1 Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Food…