The Conference on Disarmament continued its High-Level Segment this morning, hearing statements by the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development of Finland, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Vice Minister for…

Geneva (01 March 2016)- The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, today announced that intra-Syrian peace talks will resume in the afternoon of 9 March 2016. The 7th of March 2016 was initially set as the target date for the resumption of peace talks. In order to allow…

Rhéal LeBlanc, Chief, Press and External Relations at the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing attended by spokespersons of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Health Organization, and the International…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today designated the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra as a United Nations Global Advocate for Cultural Understanding. The designation took place at an event at the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG), attended by the Secretary-General and by the world-…

Secretary-General: Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and Maestro Barenboim. It is a pleasure for me to welcome today United Nations Messenger of Peace, Maestro Daniel Barenboim and members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. For the past nine years, Maestro Barenboim has used his…

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure for me to welcome today United Nations Messenger of Peace Daniel Barenboim and members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. For the past nine years, Maestro Barenboim has used his extraordinary talent and commitment to promote peace and…

“THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS” Monsieur le Président du Conseil des droits de l’homme [M. Choi Kyong-lim], Monsieur le Président de l’Assemblée générale [M. Mogens Lykketoft], Monsieur le Haut-commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme [Zeid Ra'ad Al…

Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, 1. On behalf of the Secretary-General, I welcome the adoption – I hope soon, of a resolution, which will address the issue we worked on for long. We have come a long way since the first meeting of the International Syria Support Group in Vienna on 30…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today concluded its sixteenth session, which was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 22 to 26 February 2016. The Advisory Committee, a body of 18 independent experts serving as a think-tank to the United Nations Human Rights Council, took action…

The Secretary-General welcomes the unanimous adoption of resolution 2268 by the Security Council, which endorsed the Joint Statement of the United States and the Russian Federation, as Co-Chairs of the ISSG, on the Cessation of Hostilities in Syria, and the demand that it begins at 00:00 Damascus…