Following is the message of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the 2007 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. It was delivered on his behalf by Sergio Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, on 7 November 2007 at the…

Following is the message of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Ninth Annual Conference of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. It was delivered on his behalf by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Under-Secretary-General and the…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which heard statements from spokespersons and representatives from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Refugee Agency, the…

Debapriya Bhattacharya, the new Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Concurrently with his new post in Geneva, Mr. Bhattacharya has been…

Elena Ponomareva-Piquier, Chief of the Press and External Relations Section of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing which provided information about the situation in Myanmar, meetings this week of the Committee against Torture and of the Committee on Economic,…

Following is the message of the UN Secretary-General to the first Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons’ Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War, which was delivered by Timothy Caughley, Deputy Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament…

On 5 November 2007, the first Conference of the States Parties to Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War annexed to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) successfully concluded its meeting in Geneva. Under the presidency of Ambassador Johannes C. Landman of the Netherlands, the…

The Ninth Annual Conference of the States parties to the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Amended Protocol II), annexed to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be…

Andreas Hadjichrysanthou, the new Permanent Representative of Cyprus 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. Hadjichrysanthou had been…

Wunna Maung Lwin, the new Permanent Representative of Myanmar 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, since September 2006, Mr. Lwin had been…