Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Australia, Uruguay, the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka and Pakistan The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights closed its sixty-first session this morning, after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on…

The participants in the 40th round of the Geneva International Discussions (GID) just completed their work. In both working groups, wide-ranging and useful discussions took place. In Working Group I dealing with security issues, the situation on the ground was assessed as relatively calm and stable…

I remain deeply alarmed at the depths of human suffering being endured across Syria. Daily life is dangerous and desperate for millions of people. Civilians continue to be killed, injured and displaced at a terrifying rate. I am also alarmed that places of refuge, such as hospitals and schools…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Children’s…

Francisco A. Caraballo, the new Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic 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. Caraballo…

The Special Envoy for Syria wishes to announce he will convene a seventh round of the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva. The target date for arrival of invitees is 9 July, with the round beginning on 10 July. He intends to convene further rounds of talks in August and in September. As in previous…

The Office of the Special Envoy for Syria (OSE) has completed two days of joint technical meetings at the United Nations in Geneva with opposition experts from the High Negotiations Committee, the Cairo platform and the Moscow platform. These meetings took place in the context of the consultative…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the Human Rights Council, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the…

George C. Kasoulides, the new Permanent Representative of Cyprus 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. Kasoulides had been serving as the…

JE: Thank you very much, we just finished a meeting of the Humanitarian Task Force of International Syria Support Group. We laid out a number of very worrying trends in Syria and especially bad things that keep affecting the civilian population in this war that has lasted longer than the second…