Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for World Health Organization, the Human Rights Council, the Economic Commission for Europe, the World Trade Organization, the World Meteorological…

Katerina Sequensova, the new Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the United Nations Office at Geneva, presented her credentials today to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. . Ms. Sequensova joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the…

Article on the 50th Anniversary of the death of Dag Hammarskjöld by Director-General Kassym-Jomart Tokayev 50th Anniversary of the death of Dag HammarskjöldDag Hammarskjöld – a man of honour and dignity Fifty years ago, on 18 September 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash while on a peace…

The Conference on Disarmament, the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community, concludes its 2011 session this week. The first plenary session began on 25 January and it officially ends on Friday 16 September. Addressing the Conference on 26 January, the…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the UN Refugee Agency, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the International Telecommunication Union, the World Health…

The President of the Human Rights Council, Laura Dupuy Lasserre today appointed three high-level experts as members of the Commission of Inquiry to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law since March 2011 in the Syrian Arab Republic, as mandated by the Human Rights…

Article on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 by Director-General Kassym-Jomart Tokayev The treacherous terrorist act carried out by Al Qaeda 10 years ago changed the course of world history. 9/11 changed humankind and brought understanding of the vulnerability of the world to the scourge of terrorism…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the Human Rights Council, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the…

The Human Rights Council will hold its eighteenth regular session from 12 to 30 September at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. On the morning of Monday, 12 September, the Council will hear an update by Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to be followed by a general…

Corinne Momal-Vanian, the Director of the United Nations Information Service, chaired the briefing, which was also attended by Spokespersons for and Representatives of the World Health Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the World Food Programme, the UN Refugee Agency, the…