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The member states of the European Union are aligned in their foreign policy on many issues. The EU is the world's largest economic union, customs union and donor of humanitarian and development assistance and thus has an extensive network of delegations around the world mainly operating in the framework of External Relations, for which the European Commission is the main decision body.
The Palace of Nations.The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second most important UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters.. While the Secretariat of the United Nations is headquartered in New York City, its many bodies, specialized agencies, and related organizations are headquartered in other parts of the world, particularly in Europe.
Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis is the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations since January 2024. Previously, he was the Head of the European Union Delegation to the United States. His predecessor was Olof Skoog, who was appointed European Union Special Representative for Human Rights in March 2024.
An EUNAVFOR badge displayed aboard a German frigate as part of the mission titled European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) Somalia, commonly referred to as Operation Atalanta. In the EU terminology, civilian CSDP interventions are called 'missions', regardless of whether they have an executive mandate such as EULEX Kosovo or a non-executive ...
The European Union's Delegation in Washington, D.C., represents and promotes the interests and values of the European Union in the United States. This includes presenting and explaining EU policies and actions to the different branches and levels of the U.S. Administration, Congress, and across the country, as well as promoting EU-U.S. cooperation in all fields.
The headquarters of the U.S. mission to the U.N. in Geneva. Formerly, the position was known as the "Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations". [4] The United Nations changed the nomenclature from "European Office" to "UN Office at Geneva (UNOG)" in 1966. [5]
Since 2010, the Ambassador of the European Union, now officially accredited as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, is appointed by the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission, following a proposal by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Geneva is a city in northwestern Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The population was 5,924 at the 2020 census . It is part of the Cleveland metropolitan area , 44 miles (71 km) northeast of Cleveland .