Good afternoon. You have being obviously listening because this has been an open meeting, so you're not going to reframe or re-paraphrase what had been said by the different delegations. Let me summarise it with, or summarise my own message based on what we have heard with the seven points: Point…

The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon closed its seventeenth session after adopting concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Cyprus, Honduras, Iran, Jordan and the Republic of Moldova on how they…

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

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, and Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,…

I continue to follow the situation in Syria closely and with grave concern. I was abhorred by the chemical weapons attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria, and the death and injury of many innocent civilians. I have long stated that there needs to be accountability for such crimes, in line with existing…

I thought 2017, the seventh year of war in Syria would be better. It is not. What changed was that the battle moved from Aleppo city, from Homs city, to eastern Damascus to Idlib, to Hama, to Ar- Raqqa. What did not change is that the civilian population is in the middle of this battle, the…

I thank the High Representative, Ms. Federica Mogherini for hosting us in Brussels today, and our fellow co-chairs from Germany, Kuwait, Norway, Qatar, and the UK for organising this important conference in support of Syria and the region. This is the fifth conference of its kind, and I thank…

Thank you all of you for being here and having this special occasion and Federica let me say on behalf of the Secretary-General (SG), myself and the UN, how much we appreciate working hand in hand with you and with the EU. We need to be together because, as you know the situation is very complex.…

SdM: You heard it, we have very much a common line, and we have in particularly, moments like this one where we know that the international community in this conference tomorrow, is an element of supporting and reinforcing what the international will and what the UN is doing in Geneva. We have been…

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Bangladesh on its implementation of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their…