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Switzerland, fearing that its status as a neutral country would be damaged, did not join the United Nations when it was created in 1945. [2] On 10 September 2002, Switzerland became a full member of the United Nations, after a referendum supporting full membership won in a close vote six months earlier; Swiss voters had rejected membership by a ...
Switzerland held observer status in several United Nations (UN) organs since 1948, but did not join the UN over neutrality concerns [2] and was a full member only of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. [2] In March 2002, the people of Switzerland voted to join the UN, and Switzerland became a member in September of that year. [3]
As of 21 December 2024, there are 193 member states in the United Nations (UN), each of which is a member of the United Nations General Assembly. [1]The following is a list of United Nations member states arranged in chronological order according to their dates of admission (with the United Nations Security Council resolutions that recommended their admission and the United Nations General ...
Permanent Representative of Iran to the United Nations: 81. Iraq: Abbas Kadhim Obaid Al-Fatlawi: chargé d'affaires ad interim: Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations: 82. Ireland: Fergal Tomas Mythen: 26 August 2022: 83. Israel: Danny Danon: 19 August 2024: Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations: 84. Italy ...
Eight referendums were held in Switzerland during 2002. [1] The first two were held on 3 March on popular initiatives for Switzerland to join the United Nations and to reduce working hours. UN membership was approved, whilst the shorter working hours proposal was rejected. [1]
The United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland is the second biggest U.N. centre after the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.. United Nations Specialized Agencies are autonomous organizations working with the United Nations and each other through the co-ordinating machinery of the United Nations Economic and Social Council at the intergovernmental level, and through the Chief ...
The upper house of the Swiss parliament on Thursday blocked an initiative to end the funding of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) after aid groups voiced outrage. Switzerland's National ...
The Allée des Nations, with the flags of the member countries The headquarters of the World Health Organization World Intellectual Property Organization headquarters. The United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG, French: Office des Nations Unies à Genève) in Geneva, Switzerland, is one of the four major offices [a] of the United Nations where numerous different UN agencies have a joint presence.