Following is the opening statement by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, to the ceremony held at the Palais des Nations on 27 January to mark the first International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from the Spokespersons for the International Organization for Migration, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the…

Issues Conclusions on Reports of Peru, Ghana, Liechtenstein, Trinidad and Tobago, Hungary, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Mauritius, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Andorra, Morocco, Bangladesh and Switzerland The Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded today its forty-first session and issued…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Office at Geneva, chaired the briefing, which included the participation of Spokespersons for the World Food Programme, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the UN Refugee Agency,…

Dario Galassi, the new Permanent Representative of San Marino 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. Galassi had been serving as…

Valery Loshchinin, the new Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation 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. Loshchinin had been…

Venetia Sebudandi, the new Permanent Representative of Rwanda 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. Sebudandi had been serving at the…

Boometswe Mokgothu, the new Permanent Representative of Botswana to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Mr. Mokgothu held the post of Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Affairs…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was attended by Spokespersons for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development, the World…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, will hold the first plenary of its 2006 session on Tuesday, 24 January, at the Palais des Nations. The session will open under the presidency of the Ambassador Zdzislaw Rapacki of Poland. The…