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The '''United Nations Office at Geneva''' (''UNOG'') is the second-biggest 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 bureaucracies for a number of specialized agencies such as the [[International Labour Organization]], the [[World Health Organization]] and the International Computing Centre.
The [[United Nations System|United Nations and its Specialized Agencies]] may have other offices or functions hosted outside the Palais des Nations, normally in office spaces provided by the [[Swiss Federal Council|Swiss Government]].
==Constituent agencies==
'''Headquartered at Geneva:'''
* [[United Nations Economic Commission for Europe|ECE]] - Economic Commission for Europe
* [[International Bureau of Education|IBE]] - International Bureau of Education
* [[International Computing Center|ICC]] - International Computing Centre
* [[International Labour Organization|ILO]] - International Labour Organization
* [[International Telecommunication Union|ITU]] - International Telecommunication Union
* [[International Trade Centre|ITC]] - International Trade Centre
* [[Joint Inspection Unit|JIU]] - Joint Inspection Unit
* [[Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS|UNAIDS]] - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
* [[Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs|OCHA]] - Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
* [[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|UNHCHR]] - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
* [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|UNHCR]] - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
* [[United Nations Compensation Commission|UNCC]] - United Nations Compensation Commission
* [[United Nations Conference on Trade and Development|UNCTAD]] - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
* [[United Nations Industrial Development Organization|UNIDO]] - United Nations Industrial Development Organization
* [[United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research|UNIDIR]] - United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
* [[United Nations Institute for Training and Research|UNITAR]] - United Nations Institute for Training and Research
* NGLS - United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service
* [[United Nations Office for Project Services|UNOPS]] - United Nations Office for Project Services
* [[United Nations Population Fund|UNFPA]] - United Nations Population Fund
* [[United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East|UNRWA]] - United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near-East
* [[United Nations Research Institute For Social Development|UNRISD]] - United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
* CEB - United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination
* [[United Nations Volunteers|UNV]] - United Nations Volunteers Programme
* [[World Bank Group|World Bank]]
* [[World Health Organization|WHO]] - World Health Organization
* [[World Intellectual Property Organization|WIPO]] - World Intellectual Property Organization
* [[World Meteorological Organization|WMO]] - World Meteorological Organization
'''Presence at Geneva:'''
* [[International Atomic Energy Agency|IAEA]] - International Atomic Energy Agency (Headquarters are in [[Vienna]])
* [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|UNESCO]] - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Headquarters are in [[Paris]])
* [[World Food Programme|WFP]] - World Food Programme (headquarters are in [[Rome]])
==Directors-General of UNOG==
#[[Pier Pasquale Spinelli]], Italy 1957-1968
#[[Vittorio Winspeare-Guicciardi]], Italy 1968-1978
#[[Luigi Cottafavi]], Italy 1978-1983
#[[Erik Suy]], Belgium 1983-1987
#[[Jan Martenson]], Sweden 1987-1992
#[[Antoine Blanca]], France 1992-1993
#[[Vladimir Petrovsky]], Russia 1993-2002
#[[Sergei Ordzhonikidze]], Russia 2002-present
==See also==
*[[United Nations headquarters]]
*[[United Nations Office at Vienna]]
*[[United Nations Office at Nairobi]]
==External links==
*[http://www.unog.ch/ United Nations Office at Geneva]
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