During the Geneva motor show in March Mays summoned designers to a hotel conference room overlooking Lake Geneva.
"The onus is on the government of Syria to prove that their words will be matched by their deeds this time, " Ban said at a news conference in Geneva.
In 1974 a conference was convened in Geneva to rewrite the humanitarian law of war.
In 1984, he personally introduced at the Conference on Disarmament In Geneva a U.S. draft treaty prepared in great haste for the occasion.
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In 1984, he personally introduced at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva a U.S. draft treaty prepared in great haste for the occasion and submitted despite the fact that extensive work on its verification aspects remained to be done.
The Geneva communique was drawn up in June during a conference in Switzerland that brought together representatives from world powers that had been at odds over the Syrian conflict.
Friday's meeting comes less than a week after a conference of foreign ministers, which included China and Russia, met in Geneva and called for a transitional government body as a step toward ending the uprising.
"Further spread is considered inevitable, " Chan said at a news conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Diplomats meet in Geneva next week to try to salvage plans for a June peace conference.
The Mission also recommended that the Assembly ask the Swiss Government to convene a conference of the high contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 on measures to enforce the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and ensure its respect in accordance with its article 1.
The BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says it is a concern that the UN hopes participants at an international conference on Afghanistan, due to take place in The Hague next week, will address.
The EU has pledged to prioritize helping find a political solution to the crisis, so all thoughts should now turn to making the U.S.-Russia brokered peace conference, scheduled for mid-June, in Geneva, a success.
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Bayefsky reported that at the planning session in Geneva on Thursday, the Palestinian delegation proposed that a paragraph be added to the conference's agenda.
"The Geneva conference held in June this year includes elements that are sufficient for a plan to end the crisis in the next few coming months, " he said.
The Paris meeting comes less than a week after a conference of foreign ministers, which included China and Russia, met in Geneva, Switzerland, and called for a transitional government body as a step toward ending the Syrian crisis.
While most Americans were busy celebrating Valentine's Day, last Saturday the Obama administration announced that it would send a delegation to Geneva to participate in planning the UN's so-called Durban II conference, scheduled to take place in late April.
"Today we are dealing with a weak and fragmented opposition that we must work with to go to Geneva" for the peace conference.
Members of the National Coalition are meeting in Istanbul to elect a new leader to replace Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib and formulate its positions before the Geneva conference.
The five-day Geneva talks - officially called the Durban Review Conference - are meant to review progress in fighting racism since a 2001 forum in Durban, South Africa.
So perhaps the conference is designed to come up with some new international measures to combat cybercrime or a new Geneva convention to agree some rules of engagement for cyber war fare?
On December 16, Vitali Churkin -- a veteran and thoroughly cynical public relations flack for Soviet communists -- used an international conference in Geneva to denounce the international pressure being brought to bear on Serbia and expressed Moscow's solidarity with Belgrade.
Iraq's widely publicized flouting of the Geneva Protocol led, a few months later-in January 1989-to the convening in Paris of a large international conference to do something to uphold the old treaty.
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