Obviously, everyone knows such an international organization as the UN. It covers many areas of life, for example:
- carries out economic missions;
- pursues a worldwide disarmament policy;
- contributes to the development of a favorable political and economic and financial environment;
- develops measures to ensure environmental safety;
- studies the demographic processes in the world and much more.
But not everyone knows where the UN headquarters is. And also that the organization has three more subsidiary offices - two in Europe and one in East Africa.
UN Central Headquarters in New York
Headquarters, or the headquarters itself, is the office where the main work departments are located. Its territorial location is in the eastern part of Manhattan, at 760 United Nations Square, on the East River waterfront and at the intersection of 42nd and 48th streets.
For mailshipments, you need to know the address of the administrative building where the UN headquarters is located: United Nations, New York, NY 10017.
UN Headquarters - Common "International Zone"
A plot of land with an area of 73 thousand square meters. m. is an "international zone belonging to all member states of the organization." But by agreement of the authorities of the United States and the organization, on the territory where the UN headquarters is located, the judicial jurisdiction of the United States still operates.
The building opened in 1951 and has 39 floors. Here meetings of the organization are held, the most important issues are resolved and key decisions of international importance are made.
The UN was established in October 1945, and its first meetings were held in the capital of Great Britain - London, since the organization did not have its own building. They adopted a resolution that the main office will be located in Lake Success - a village near Long Island. Beginning in August 1946, meetings of the Assembly and the Security Council were held in the suburbs of New York, and in December of the same year, John D. Rockefeller Jr. allocated funds in the amount of eight and a half million US dollars to purchase a land plot and erect a UN headquarters building.
Central Headquarters Choice Issues
An interesting fact is that many member states of the organization voted against the construction of a building in New York and offered their own options for locating the central office. For example, Canada wished to locate its headquarters in Ontario, onNavi Island, near Niagara Falls. Many voted for this proposal, since the place was located on the border of the two countries, but in the end New York was chosen.
Until now, politicians consider this choice unfair, do not understand why the UN headquarters is in New York and make proposals to transfer the administration to a more suitable place, in their opinion. So, in 2009, Libyan President M. Gaddafi proposed an alternative: to locate the representative office of the organization in Beijing or Delhi, since, as he believed, it was the East that plays a key role in the development of mankind.
This is not the only office where the UN headquarters is located. The organization is stationed on different continents. There are only four offices. Main - in New York in Manhattan, auxiliary, or regional:
- in Switzerland (Geneva);
- in Austria (Vienna);
- in Kenya (Nairobi).
Geneva Headquarters in Europe
Where is the European headquarters of the UN - the second most important office after the US?
In Geneva at the Palais des Nations. Administrative and leading international departments are concentrated here, meetings and forums of various commissions and committees are held. The office is also engaged in advisory, educational and advocacy work.
The Palais des Nations in Geneva, where the United Nations Headquarters in Europe is located, includes five administrative buildingsvalues connected by passages on the second and third floors. The complex is located in a park area, which is the government district of Geneva. The building itself was built in 1937, it housed the League of Nations. In 1996, the Palace was transferred to the European office, despite the fact that Switzerland was admitted to the UN only 6 years later.
It is noteworthy that in front of the entrance to the building where the UN headquarters is located, you can see a sculpture in the form of a giant chair with a broken leg - a symbolic protest against the use of anti-personnel mines.
Working and administrative bodies, agencies and centers of the UN have over 60 thousand employees from 170 countries. The main office in New York houses one third of the total staff.
