Thank you for being available for this further discussion. I must say I owe to you some additional points because all of you asked for some comments on what, at that time, was breaking news, at the humanitarian taskforce. I did not answer your questions then because I…

Michele Zaccheo, Chief, Radio and Television Section, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health…

UNOG Director-General Michael Møller has learned with great sadness of the passing on Tuesday of veteran journalist Gordon Martin, the doyen of the international press corps in Geneva and a distinguished former president of the ACANU (Association des Correspondents Auprès des Nations Unies). The…

Good afternoon, and sorry for the delay, but as you know there have been new indications and discussions taking place regarding both Aleppo and the overall situation. Let me first of all say that I am asking my deputy to go to Damascus in the next few days in order to discuss with the Syrian…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration and the United…

26 July 2016, GenevaSpecial Envoy: Good evening. First let me say in French [few words of condolences and condemnation of today’s church attack in France]. Today as you know we had a meeting in Geneva at the UN premises here with both American and Russian senior officials. The subject was…

22 July 2016 I’m looking forward to meet our friend and trusted supporter of the UN efforts, yourself, Minister, and Germany. I will be having an opportunity of discussing exactly what you said. We will be certainly on our side saying thank you, once again, to Germany, because, not only you’re a…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, the United Nations Refugee Agency and the International…

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of the Philippines, Myanmar, France, Albania, Turkey, Uruguay, Mali and Trinidad and Tobago The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concluded its sixty-fourth session this afternoon, after adopting its concluding observations…

Geneva, 21 July 2016 Jan Egeland (JE).: We have now been working in the Humanitarian Taskforce of the ISSG since mid-February, about five months. When we take stock after this first half year, this year, we see that we [the UN] have now reached 1 million people, in hard to reach areas and in…