US Mission Geneva

The Administration launched a review of our Burma policy seven months ago, recognizing that political and humanitarian conditions in Burma were deplorable.

The U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), established in 1983, is the main forum for addressing bilateral trade matters and promoting commercial opportunities between the United States and China. In 2003, the U.S. President and the Chinese Premier agreed to elevate the leadership of the JCCT, so it would be chaired by the [...]

The United States was pleased to co-sponsor the resolution sponsored by Argentina on the right to truth, which may be characterized differently in various legal systems, such as our own, as the right to be informed or freedom of information or the right to know. We thank the Delegation of Argentina, for both putting this important matter before the Council and for its hard work and collaboration on the resolution.

Secretary Clinton (Oct. 19): “The Sudan policy we are outlining today is the result of an intensive review across the United States Government…. It reflects the Administration’s seriousness, sense of urgency, and collective agreement about how best to address the complex challenges that have prevented resolution of the crisis in Darfur and full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.”

Ian Kelly: “we have very intensive negotiations going on. We have a very firm deadline that’s coming up very quickly, a little more than – well, it’s December 5th, so it’s – we’re talking about a month and a half now. So we have very intensive negotiations going on. We do not want to negotiate in public. We are taking the tasking from our two presidents very seriously, the Russian side and the American side.”

Mr. Chairman, the United States is pleased to inform the General Assembly’s First Committee that efforts to promote international cooperation and understanding in the peaceful use of outer space continue to expand. Such cooperation is essential today more than ever as space evolves into an increasingly congested, complex, and potentially contested, domain.

It is an important time for consideration of conventional armaments. Small arms (SA) and light weapons (LW) have been attracting a great deal of attention, both in the UN Program of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons and in the UN Group of Governmental Experts on the UN Register of Conventional Arms, which almost agreed to add SA/LW as a new category.

“…the time has come for the world to move in a new direction. We must embrace a new era of engagement based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and our work must begin now.” — President Barack Obama

The steady entry of new States Parties over the last several years, bringing the CWC close to universal membership (there are currently 188 States Parties), has been most encouraging. We strongly support the efforts of all States Parties, the Director General, and the Technical Secretariat to strengthen contacts with the remaining non-member states.