United Nations Office at Geneva

The Palais des Nations, the main building of the United Nations Office at Geneva. In 2012 alone, the Palace of Nations hosted more than 10'000 intergovernmental meetings.^[1]

The Allée des Nations, with the flags of the member countries.

The headquarters of the World Health Organization.

The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) is the second-largest of the four major office sites of the United Nations (second to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City). It is located in the Palais des Nations building constructed for the League of Nations between 1929 and 1938 at Geneva in Switzerland, and expanded in the early 1950s and late 1960s.

Besides United Nations administration, it also hosts the offices for a number of programmes and funds such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE).

The United Nations and its specialized agencies, programmes and funds may have other offices or functions hosted outside the Palais des Nations, normally in office spaces provided by the Swiss Government.

UN specialized agencies and other UN entities with offices in Geneva hold bi-weekly briefings at the United Nations Information Service at Geneva.

Constituent agencies

Headquartered at Geneva:

• ECE – Economic Commission for Europe
• IBE – International Bureau of Education
• ICC – International Computing Centre
• ILO – International Labour Organization
• ITC – International Trade Centre
• ITU – International Telecommunication Union
• JIU – Joint Inspection Unit
• OCHA – Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• UNAIDS – Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
• UNHCHR – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• UNHCR – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• UNCC – United Nations Compensation Commission
• UNCTAD – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• UNIDIR – United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
• UNITAR – United Nations Institute for Training and Research
• NGLS – United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service
• UNOSDP – United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace
• UNRISD – United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
• CEB – United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination
• WHO – World Health Organization
• WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization
• WMO – World Meteorological Organization

Presence at Geneva:

• IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency (Headquarters are in Vienna)
• UNEP – United Nations Environment Programme (Headquarters are in Nairobi)
• UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Headquarters are in Paris)
• Vienna)
• WFP – WFP Geneva Liaison Office (headquarters are in Rome)

See also:

• Conference on Disarmament
• United Nations Human Rights Council

Directors-General of UNOG

Michael Møller, Denmark 2013- present

1. Wladimir Moderow, Poland 1946–1951
2. J. Franclin Ray, USA 1952
3. Sir Arthur Rucker, UK 1953
4. Adriannus Pelt, Netherlands 1954–1957
5. Pier Pasquale Spinelli, Italy 1957–1968
6. Vittorio Winspeare-Guicciardi, Italy 1968–1978
7. Luigi Cottafavi, Italy 1978–1983
8. Eric Suy, Belgium 1983–1987
9. Jan Mårtenson, Sweden 1987–1992
10. Antoine Blanca, France 1992–1993
11. Vladimir Petrovsky, Russia 1993–2002
12. Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Russia 2002–2011
13. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan 2011–2013
14. Michael Møller, Denmark 2013- present

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Administrative history of the United Nations Office at Geneva

1. United Nations Geneva Office, from beginning, Aug 1946 – Apr 1947, (IC/Geneva/1)^[3]
2. European Office of the UN, 11 Apr 1947 – 10 Aug 1948, (IC/Geneva/49)^[4]
3. United Nations Office at Geneva, 10 Aug 1948 – 9 Aug 1949, (IC/Geneva/152)
4. European Office of the UN, 9 Aug 1949 – 8 Dec 1957, (SGB/82/Rev.1)
5. United Nations Office at Geneva, 8 December 1957 – present, (SGB/82/Rev.2)

See also

• United Nations headquarters
• United Nations Information Service at Geneva
• United Nations Office at Vienna
• United Nations Office at Nairobi

References

Bibliography

• Joëlle Kuntz, Geneva and the call of internationalism. A history, éditions Zoé, 2011, 96 pages (ISBN 978-2-88182-855-3).

External links

• Official website
• United Nations organisations in Geneva

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