Alex Van Meeuwen, the new Permanent Representative of Belgium 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. Van Meeuwen was, from 2001, Director-…

The Conference on Disarmament, the world's sole multilateral forum for disarmament negotiations, today concluded the third and last part of its 2006 session after adopting its annual report. In its report, which will be presented to the General Assembly, the Conference said that the substantive…

International Community to Assesses Progress in Fight to Eliminate Anti-Personnel Mines More than 700 delegates representing over 100 States and dozens of organizations will gather in Geneva from 18 to 22 September for the Seventh Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition…

Marie Heuzé, the Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also addressed by Spokespersons for the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Meteorological…

Session Devoted to Hearing Reports from Council’s Special Procedures The Human Rights Council will hold its second session from 18 September to 6 October 2006. The session will be devoted to hearing the reports of the special procedures of the Council, including Special Rapporteurs, Experts and…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning heard from speakers who welcomed the signing of a treaty on 8 September on the establishment of a nuclear weapons free zone in Central Asia by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Kazakhstan said the idea of the nuclear…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which also heard from Spokespersons and Representatives of Australia, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations…

Marie Heuzé, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which was also addressed by Spokespersons for the UN Refugee Agency, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World…

The Fifteenth Session of the Group of Governmental Experts of the States 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) concluded on Wednesday,…

The two-day International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People this afternoon adopted a Plan of Action and concluded its annual meeting. The Plan of Action commits civil society organizations to ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and to…