Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons and representatives for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's single multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first public plenary of its 2018 session on Tuesday, 23 January at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.The session will open under the presidency of Sri Lanka. The presidency of the…

52nd meeting of the Gali Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism Russian version Gali, 17 January 2018 – On 17 January 2018, the 52nd meeting of the joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Gali town under the chairmanship United Nations, with the participation of…

RER: Good evening, I had a two-hour meeting today with Dr. Fayssal Mekdad, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic, which was held in the framework of the continuous consultations between the Office of the Special Envoy and the Syrian government, on different…

Arabic versionThe United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, today sent separate invitations to the Syrian Government and the Syrian Negotiation Commission to a special meeting with the United Nations in the framework of the United Nations-facilitated Geneva political process on…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International…

Committee on the Rights of the ChildCOMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD OPENS SEVENTY-SEVENTH SESSION The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its seventy-seventh session this morning, hearing an address by Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, and…

The UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, was shocked and saddened to learn of the death in hospital in Damascus of Mr Mounir Darwish, following an apparent hit and run with a vehicle driven by an unidentified assailant outside his home. The Special Envoy calls for those involved to be…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the 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 United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee…

The State of Palestine, on 29 December 2017, joined Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), becoming the ninety-fourth High Contracting Party to the Protocol. The State of Palestine is a High Contracting Party to the CCW. It joined the…