Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization aiming to maintain international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and countries, achieving international cooperation, and serving as a centre for coordinating the actions of member states. [2]
One United Nations Plaza, an office building on 44th Street just outside the UN complex, was completed in 1975 with the United Nations Plaza Hotel on its upper stories. [99] [100] Another office tower outside the headquarters proper, Two United Nations Plaza, was completed in 1983. [101]
One and Two United Nations Plaza in center, dwarfing the US Mission to the UN, viewed from Roosevelt Island.The UN Secretariat is on the left.. One UN Plaza is a mixed-use building in Turtle Bay, Manhattan that was designed for the United Nations by Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 January 2025. For the League of Nations, see Member states of the League of Nations. 193 United Nations member states 2 UN General Assembly observer states (the Holy See [a] and the State of Palestine) 2 eligible non-member states (the Cook Islands and Niue) 17 non-self-governing territories ...
One United Nations Plaza, completed in 1975, is the older of the two buildings [6] and was the first large hotel and office building in New York City. [7] [8] Two United Nations Plaza opened in 1983 as an office, residential, and hotel building. [4] One and Two United Nations Plaza are also known respectively as DC1 and DC2. [9]
The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second biggest UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters (New York City).. The United Nations System consists of the United Nations' six principal bodies (the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the United Nations Secretariat), [1 ...
Two UN Plaza (also referred to as Tower Two, D.C. 2, [4] or simply, "Two") opened in 1983 and is a 40-story mixed-use office building and hotel located between 44th and 45th Streets west of, and adjacent to One UN Plaza. The building includes 450,000 square feet of office space on floors 2 through 28, hotel space on floors 29 through 40, and ...
The United Nations Development Corporation or UNDC is a quasi-public institution that developed and presently operates One, Two, and Three UN Plaza. UNDC operates all of Three UN Plaza. As the name suggests, UNDC's principal tenants are the United Nations, the UN Development Programme, UNICEF, and other missions to the UN. Three UN Plaza was ...