United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV)
Office des Nations Unies à Vienne
Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Viena
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Founded
1979
History
1979, as one of the headquarters of the A-XA3375 - United Nations (UN), to provide the services necessary to facilitate transfer of a number of United Nations offices to Vienna (Austria) and later to combine some administrative and common services previously performed separately by other organizations established in Vienna. In 1993, most units dealing with social development and humanitarian affairs, including U-XE2772 - United Nations Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs (UNCSDHA), were transferred to the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York NY (USA), but responsibility for executive direction and management of the programme on crime prevention and criminal justice was maintained with the Director-General and extended to cover the Programme on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, transferred from New York in the same year. Since 2002, closely associated with E-XE3574 - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) through which additional common services are provided. The Office includes E-XE3128 - United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) and E-XE5951 - United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND).
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Office of the Director-General, which runs parallel with that of the Office of the Executive Director of UNODC. Based at: G-XG6679 - Vienna International Centre (VIC).
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XE7552
Last News
2007
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