Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the World Food Programme, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Conference on Trade and…

Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, and Javier Garrigues, the Ambassador of Spain to the United Nations Office at Geneva, briefed journalists at the Palais des Nations about the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room and, especially, on the…

The Second 2009 Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects (CCW) will convene from 14…

Klara Tunyogi Akots, the new Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Akots had been serving as a Member…

Following are the remarks by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, which he delivered at a ceremony today at the Palais des Nations marking the annual observance of the International Day of Reflection on the 1994…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also attended by Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office for the Coordination of…

Three Additional Members of Fact-Finding Mission Appointed The Human Rights Council today announced the appointment of Richard J. Goldstone, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and current Spinoza Fellow at the Netherlands Institute…

Following is the keynote address delivered today by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to a conference at the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in Brussels entitled “Belgium in the UN Security Council 2007-…

The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi, issued the following statement today on the announcement by the United States to run for election to the Human Rights Council. “I am very encouraged by the news of the decision of the U.S. to run for a seat in the…