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| UNO City - Vienna International
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A-1400 Vienna, Wagramer Strasse 5
The Vienna International Centre (VIC), colloquially also known as UNO
City in Vienna, is the campus and building complex hosting United
Nations organizations in Vienna, Austria.
The VIC , designed by Austrian architect Johann Staber, was built
between 1973 and 1979 just north of the river Danube. Initial idea of
setting up international organization in Vienna came from prime minster
Dr. Bruno Kreisky.
Six Y-shaped office towers surround a cylindrical conference building
for a total floor area of 230,000 square metres. The highest tower
stands 120 metres tall, enclosing 28 floors.
About 5,000 people work at the VIC, which also offers catering, banking,
postal and shopping facilities. Larger conferences can be accommodated
in the neighbouring Austria Center Vienna, a conference and exhibition
centre with a capacity of 6000.
The VIC is an extraterritorial area.
Complementing the ongoing Asbestos removal works in the VIC, a new
conference building, to be opened in 2008, is being constructed near the
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| United Nations Office at Vienna |
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The United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV),
established on 1 January 1980, serves as the representative office of
the Secretary-General in Vienna and performs representation and liaison
functions with permanent missions, the host Government as well as
Governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations in
Vienna.
UNOV manages and implements the programme on the peaceful use of outer
space and provides common services, such as conference services,
information services, security & safety services and general support
services, for the other organizations of the United Nations system
located at the Vienna International Centre (VIC).
UNOV is closely associated with the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC) through which additional common services are provided,
namely information technology and communications services, human
resources management services and financial resources management
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| Organizations |
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| A major UN site along with New York, Geneva and
Nairobi, the VIC hosts several organizations: |
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International Atomic Energy Agency
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United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC) and United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV),
including Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) |
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United Nations Industrial
Development Organization (UNIDO) |
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Preparatory Commission for the
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO). |
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| Two other notable international organizations
headquartered in Vienna, OSCE and OPEC, occupy facilities outside the
VIC. |
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| History |
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The United Nations was founded as a successor to the
League of Nations, which was widely considered to have been ineffective
in its role as an international governing body, in that it had been
unable to prevent World War II. Some argue that the UN's major advantage
over the League of Nations is its ability to maintain and deploy its
member nations' armed forces as peace keepers. Others see such "peace
keeping" as a euphemism for war and domination of weak and poor
countries by the wealthy and powerful nations of the world.
The term "United Nations" (which appears in stanza 35 of Canto III of
Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) was decided by Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Winston Churchill during World War II, to refer to the Allies. Its
first formal use was in the 1 January 1942 Declaration by the United
Nations, which committed the Allies to the principles of the Atlantic
Charter and pledged them not to seek a separate peace with the Axis
powers. Thereafter, the Allies used the term "United Nations Fighting
Forces" to refer to their alliance.
The idea for the UN was espoused in declarations signed at the wartime
Allied conferences in Moscow, Cairo, and Tehran in 1943 . From August to
October 1944, representatives of France, the Republic of China, the
United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union met to elaborate
the plans at the Dumbarton Oaks Estate in Washington, DC. Those and
later talks produced proposals outlining the purposes of the
organization, its membership and organs, and arrangements to maintain
international peace and security and international economic and social
cooperation.
On 25 April 1945, the UN Conference on International Organizations began
in San Francisco. In addition to the governments, a number of
non-governmental organizations were invited to assist in drafting the
charter. The 50 nations represented at the conference signed the Charter
of the United Nations two months later on 26 June. Poland had not been
represented at the conference, but a place had been reserved for it
among the original signatories, and it added its name later. The UN came
into existence on 24 October 1945, after the Charter had been ratified
by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council—the Republic of
China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United
States—and by a majority of the other 46 signatories. That these
countries are the permanent members of the Security Council, and have
veto power on any Security Council resolution, reflects that they are
the main victors of World War II or their successor states: the People's
Republic of China replaced the Republic of China in 1971 and Russia
replaced the Soviet Union in 1991 |
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| WIKIPEDIA - the free
encyclopedia |
| Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia
with more than 100 languages, where everyone can
contribute with their knowledge |
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| Images: UNO City - © Gottfried
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| UN Missions |
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| Austria took part in a UN operation for the first
time from 1960 to 1963 with a field hospital in the Congo. In 1964
Austria sent a field hospital to Cyprus. Since 1967 Austrians have
served as UN military observers in the Near East; from 1972 one, since
1973 two infantry battalions have been engaged in Cyprus and in the Near
East (Suez Canal, from 1974 Golan Heights). Since the 1980s ("Diversification")
Austrian military and civil observers and police forces have
participated in numerous operations worldwide, e.g. police forces in
Namibia (1989/90), in Cambodia (1991-1993) and in Iraq (since 1991), a
field hospital for Kurd refugees in Iran (1991), and poll-watchers in
Nicaragua (1991), South Africa (1994) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1996). In
addition to these UN missions Austria has supplied a transport company
for the NATO operation in Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1993; in 1997
Austrian soldiers helped put an end to the civil war in Albania. The
legal basis for all international missions is the Entsendegesetz
(International Missions Act - 1965, 1997). Since 1960 about 35,000
Austrians have taken part in UN operations. |
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| aeiou - das kulturinformationssystem des
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| 14.000 keywords and 2000 images from
Austrian history, geography, politics and economics |
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