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

Monsieur le président [François Delattre, France], dear friends, ambassadors, Let me update you on developments and lay out some of the plans that we have for the next round of the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva, and then brief you on some of the other potential initiatives. We are seeing very…

50th meeting of Gali Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism Russian version On 25 October 2017, the 50th meeting of the joint Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Gali town under the chairmanship of the United Nations with the participation of Georgian, Russian,…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, the World Health…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization and the World Trade…

The Secretary-General continues to follow closely the situation in Raqqa, Syria. He recalls the obligation of all parties to the conflictto protect civilians and abide by international humanitarian and human rights law. He also urges the parties to facilitate humanitarian access in order to allow…

SE: Thank you, thank you very much. Well, I confirm this is a very good and timely moment for having this type of consultations - because we are clearly moving from the period of de-escalation into almost - and we hope forever - defeating terrorism, as defined by the UN. Now it is the moment for…

The Human Rights Committee this morning completed its consideration of the sixth periodic report of the Dominican Republic on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Presenting the report, Rhadys Abreu De Polanco, Director General for…

Arabic version Question: Mr. de Mistura, are you satisfied with the outcome of the meeting? Special Envoy: This meeting, like every meeting I have been having with His Excellency Minister Shoigu, has been very useful. This was a very important and timely opportunity to discuss how to move from…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office for the Coordination of…