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…

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…

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…

SdM: True, this is not the most important perhaps job in the world, but one of the most complicated at the moment. I was trying during, and I’m not revealing a secret, I was trying to convey to those who are participating to this mediation seminar, which by the way is extremely helpful, because…

Alessandra Vellucci, Director, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the International Telecommunications Union, the Human Rights Council, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the…

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

Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the United Nations Information Service at the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency and the World Health Organisation, and the representatives of the International…

Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Antigua and Barbuda, Bhutan, Cameroon, Lebanon, Mongolia, Qatar, Romania and the United States The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon closed its seventy-fifth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations Section, United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing attended by the spokespersons for the World Meteorological Organization, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the World Health Organization, the United Nations…

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its thirty-fifth regular session from 6 to 23 June 2017 in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The session will be opened by Ambassador Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli of El Salvador,…