Following are the opening remarks delivered by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at a panel event on parliaments and challenges to democracy organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union to mark the…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from spokespersons and representatives from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Office of the United Nations High…

Following are the remarks delivered today by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the Ministerial Review Summit on the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development: "It is a pleasure for me to be with you today. Allow me, first of all, to…

Hisham Badr, the new Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Badr had been working as Assistant Minister…

Following are the remarks delivered by Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at the opening of an exhibition on 9 September at the Palais des Nations entitled “The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela”: “It is a…

Goulnora Karimova, the new Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan 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. Karimova had been working at the…

John Ukec Lueth Ukec, the new Permanent Representative of Sudan to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Ukec had been serving as Sudan’s…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning adopted its annual report to the General Assembly and closed the work of its 2008 substantive session, which officially ends this Friday, 12 September. In concluding remarks at its final meeting, Ambassador German Mundarain Hernandez of Venezuela,…

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 of the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Office…

The Group of Governmental Experts of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) continued its efforts last week to "negotiate a proposal to address urgently the humanitarian impact of cluster munitions, while striking a balance between military and humanitarian considerations", a mandate…