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United nations office at geneva
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.
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- United nations office at geneva
- Constituent agencies
- Directors General
- Administrative history
- References
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 Palais des Nations, organized by the United Nations Information Service at Geneva.
United nations office at geneva
Constituent agencies
Headquartered at Geneva:
Presence at Geneva:
Directors-General
- Wladimir Moderow, Poland 1946–1951
- Adriaan Pelt, Netherlands 1952–1957
- Pier Pasquale Spinelli, Italy 1957–1968
- Vittorio Winspeare-Guicciardi, Italy 1968–1978
- Luigi Cottafavi, Italy 1978–1983
- Eric Suy, Belgium 1983–1987
- Jan Mårtenson, Sweden 1987–1992
- Antoine Blanca, France 1992–1993
- Vladimir Petrovsky, Russia 1993–2002
- Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Russia 2002–2011
- Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan 2011–2013
- Michael Møller, Denmark 2013–present
Administrative history
- United Nations Geneva Office, from beginning, Aug 1946 – Apr 1947, (IC/Geneva/1)
- European Office of the UN, 11 Apr 1947 – 10 Aug 1948, (IC/Geneva/49)
- United Nations Office at Geneva, 10 Aug 1948 – 9 Aug 1949, (IC/Geneva/152)
- European Office of the UN, 9 Aug 1949 – 8 Dec 1957, (SGB/82/Rev.1)
- United Nations Office at Geneva, 8 December 1957 – present, (SGB/82/Rev.2)