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UN Number Class Proper Shipping Name UN 0001? (UN No. no longer in use) Alarm devices, explosive (UN No. no longer in use) [1] UN 0002 to UN 0003? (UN No.s no longer in use) UN 0004: 1.1D: Ammonium picrate, dry or wetted with less than 10 percent water, by mass UN 0005: 1.1F: Cartridges for weapons, with bursting charge UN 0006: 1.1E
This is the list of UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) country codes. In addition to countries, codes identify geographical groupings and political entities such as various liberation fronts (not all of which still exist). The purpose of the codes is in part actuarial.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 of 15 December 1960, titled "Principles which should guide members in determining whether or not an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73e of the Charter" was a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly during its fifteenth session with annexes of 12 principles, that affirmed that to ensure ...
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 functions of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction include leading and overseeing UNDRR in the executions of its functions entrusted by the United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Economic and Social Council and the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and its successor the Sendai Framework, as ...
This work is excerpted from an official document of the United Nations. Prior to 17 September 1987 it was the policy of this organisation to not seek copyright, keeping most of its documents in the public domain , in order to disseminate "as widely as possible the ideas (contained) in the United Nations Publications" ( detail ).
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established by Maurice Strong , its first director, after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in June 1972.
The Dupont Circle Building was the UNRRA head office in Washington DC from October 1944 [1] [2]. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA, pronounced / ˈ ʌ n r ə / UN-rə) was an international relief agency founded in November 1943 on the joint initiative of the United States, United Kingdom, USSR, and the Republic of China.