US Mission Geneva

The United States ships thousands of tons of food aid to scores of countries around the world beset by floods, droughts, monsoons and other disasters to prevent people from going hungry, but the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) asked how it could do even more good.

“Technologies for NASA missions have long improved life here on Earth. Together with USAID, we’ll meet even more sustainable development challenges here on the ground, solving problems for the world community,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said April 25 before signing a new partnership agreement with USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah.

To commemorate World Intellectual Property Day, Amb. King announced that the U.S. will award a grant to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to build public awareness of the dangers to health and safety associated with counterfeit products.

More young children in Africa are surviving or avoiding malaria since U.S. and international health agencies began scaling up efforts to combat this potentially fatal disease.

1. SURVEILLANCE OF IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS ADOPTED BY THE DSB
A. UNITED STATES – SECTION 211 OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS ACT OF 1998: STATUS REPORT BY THE UNITED STATES (WT/DS176/11/ADD.101)

Ambassador King: “With the sowing of seeds of what is known as the “mélange de Geneve” – which includes 46 different species of regional and local flowers and native wild grasses – the lawn we stand on today will be transformed into a meadow full of flowering prairie grasses indigenous to the Geneva region.”

The U.S. government, through the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, is pleased to highlight our recent $126.8 million contribution to UNHCR.

On April 20, 2011, the United States Mission to the United Nations in Geneva will celebrate its signature of Geneva’s Garden Charter (Charte des Jardins) with a seed sowing ceremony beginning the conversion of the lawns surrounding our building to meadows of flowering prairie grasses indigenous to the Geneva region. The conversion from lawn to prairie meadow marks the first major step in implementation of an ambitious multi-year sustainable landscape project to transform the Mission’s grounds into a series of local ecosystems that will support local flora and fauna and connect us with the larger Geneva environment.

The capability of the international community to recognize risk, prepare for the worst and respond with efficiency are “critical to global security.” Nations also have “a moral need and a moral commitment to stand together in times of crisis,” said U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah.