Showing posts with label United Nations - Geneva. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Switzerland - United Nations Office at Geneva


United Nations (UN) Office at Geneva.

Sent by Sylvia, a postcrosser from Zurich in Switzerland.

This is from Wikipedia : The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) is the second-largest of the four major office sites of the United Nations (second to New York). 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 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarion Affairs (OCHA) and the 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.