Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Congo, Yemen, Holy See, Portugal, Russian Federation and Germany The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its sixty-fifth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Congo, Yemen, Holy…

(Near verbatim transcript) JSRS : Good afternoon everyone. Had another fairly long meeting this morning, where we discussed a very sensitive and important subject that is the security situation in Syria and terrorism. I think a lot has been said about it. There is of course agreement that…

Juan Jose Quintana, the new Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Michael Møller, the Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Quintana had been serving in 2013…

(Near verbatim transcript)JSRS : Good evening. Had a long day, with a long session in the morning and two shorter sessions in the afternoon, one with each delegation. In the morning, the two delegations were with us. In the afternoon they came one after the other. We talked about the TGB […

Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing which was also attended by the Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations Children’s Programme, World Food Programme, World…

(Near verbatim transcript)JSRS : Good evening to you. I do apologise for being late. I am sure you have heard already that today we have met only in the morning but not in the afternoon, and I am sure you have heard all sorts of explanations. And I am sure you are going to ask me all…

JSRS : Thank you again for your patience and your interest. We had another meeting in the morning with the two parties in the same room and a meeting with each party alone with me, in the afternoon. I would like to make an observation about some of the people that are talking to the media. It’s…

Transcript of press conference by Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS) Lakhdar Brahimi - Geneva, 26 January 2014(Near verbatim transcript) JSRS: Good afternoon everyone. Today we had a meeting with the two parties together in the morning, and a meeting with each side alone in the…

Transcript of press conferenceby Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS) Lakhdar BrahimiGeneva, 25 January 2014 (Near verbatim transcript.) JSRS: Good evening ladies and gentleman. Thank you very much for coming again. What I have to report is that we had two sessions today, in the same…

Transcript of press conferenceby Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS) Lakhdar BrahimiGeneva, 24 January 2014 (Near verbatim transcript.) Joint Special Representative for Syria (JSRS): Good afternoon, or good evening, I don’t know. Thank you very much for being here. As you know, we…