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25-840: United Nations Office may refer to: One of the three regional office complexes located away from United Nations Headquarters in New York City: United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) United Nations Office at Vienna (UNON) Offices of the United Nations Secretariat: United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP) United Nations Office for

50-677: A three-year refurbishment, restoring its original design by Danish architect Finn Juhl , the chamber was re-opened in 2013. The current president of the Trusteeship Council is James Kariuki and the Vice-President is Nathalie Broadhurst Estival. The formal elimination of the Trusteeship Council would require the revision of the UN Charter. Though this has been proposed as part of reform of the United Nations ,

75-606: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages United Nations Office at Geneva The United Nations Office at Geneva ( UNOG , French : Office des Nations Unies à Genève ) in Geneva , Switzerland , is one of the four major offices of the United Nations where numerous different UN agencies have a joint presence. The main UNOG administrative offices are located inside

100-828: The General Assembly passed resolution 64 on 14 December 1946, which provided for the establishing of the United Nations Trusteeship Council. The Trusteeship Council held its first session in March 1947. In March 1948, the United States proposed that the territory of Mandatory Palestine be placed under UN Trusteeship with the termination of the British Mandate in May 1948 (see American trusteeship proposal for Palestine ). However,

125-770: The Palais des Nations complex, which was originally constructed for the League of Nations between 1929 and 1938. Besides United Nations administration, the Palais des Nations also hosts the offices for a number of programmes and funds such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and

150-583: The Security Council , and (3) as many other non-administering members as needed to equalize the number of administering and non-administering members, elected by the General Assembly for renewable three-year terms. Over time, as trust territories attained independence, the size and workload of the Trusteeship Council was reduced. Ultimately, the Trusteeship Council came to include only the five permanent Security Council members (China, France,

175-758: The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands , which became a member state of the United Nations in December 1994. Provisions to form a new UN agency to oversee the decolonization of dependent territories from colonial times were made at the San Francisco Conference in 1945 and were specified Chapter 12 of the Charter of the United Nations . Those dependent territories ( colonies and mandated territories ) were to be placed under

200-617: The United Nations 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 . UN specialised agencies and other UN entities with offices in Geneva hold bi-weekly briefings at the Palais des Nations , organized by

225-548: The United Nations Information Service at Geneva . UNOG produces an annual report where it lists all major events and activities that happened through a year. The United Nations Library & Archives Geneva is part of the UNOG. United Nations Trusteeship Council The United Nations Trusteeship Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations , established to help ensure that trust territories were administered in

250-778: The Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Office of Internal Oversight Services Office of Legal Affairs Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Office of

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375-711: The Soviet Union/Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States), as the only country administering a Trust Territory (the United States) was a permanent member. With the independence of Palau , formerly part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands , in 1994, there presently are no trust territories, leaving the Trusteeship Council without responsibilities. (Since the Northern Mariana Islands

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425-629: The US did not make an effort to implement this proposal, which became moot with the declaration of the State of Israel . Under the Charter, the Trusteeship Council was to consist of an equal number of United Nations Member States administering trust territories and non-administering states. Thus, the Council was to consist of (1) all U.N. members administering trust territories, (2) the five permanent members of

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475-478: The United Nations website: By a resolution adopted on 25th of May 1994, the Council amended its rules of procedure to drop the obligation to meet annually and agreed to meet as occasion required -- by its decision or the decision of its President, or at the request of a majority of its members or the General Assembly or the Security Council. The chamber itself is still used for other purposes. Following

500-408: The best interests of their inhabitants and of international peace and security. The trust territories—most of them former mandates of the League of Nations or territories taken from nations defeated at the end of World War II —have all now attained self-government or independence , either as separate nations or by joining neighbouring independent countries. The last was Palau , formerly part of

525-525: The best interests of their inhabitants. Its mission fulfilled, the Trusteeship Council suspended its operation on 1 November 1994, and, although under the United Nations Charter it continues to exist on paper, its future role and even existence remains uncertain. The Trusteeship Council has a president and vice-president, although the sole current duty of these officers is to meet with the heads of other UN agencies on occasion. According to

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550-524: The international trusteeship system created by the United Nations Charter as a successor to the League of Nations mandate system. Ultimately, eleven territories were placed under trusteeship: seven in Africa and four in Oceania . Ten of the trust territories had previously been League of Nations mandates; the eleventh was Italian Somaliland . In order to implement the provisions on the trusteeship system,

575-472: The political difficulties of such changes mean that these have not been enacted. Other functions for the Trusteeship Council have been considered, such as the Commission on Global Governance 's 1995 Our Global Neighbourhood report which recommended expanding the trusteeship council's remit to the protection of environmental integrity and the global commons on the two-thirds of the world's surface that

600-439: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title United Nations Office . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_Nations_Office&oldid=1228218685 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

625-586: Was a part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and became a commonwealth of the USA in 1986, it is technically the only area not to have joined as a part of another state or gained full independence as a sovereign nation.) The Trusteeship Council was not assigned responsibility for colonial territories outside the trusteeship system, although the Charter did establish the principle that member states were to administer such territories in conformity with

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