Palais Food Options
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Main CafeteriaOpen Monday to Friday11:30am to 2pm
Building A, Level 0
Located in the heart of the Palais, on the first floor, the cafeteria opens every day for your lunches.
A real meeting place, the cafeteria welcomes more than 1500 people…
Collection Development Policy
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Collection Development Policy
The policy followed by the UN Library & Archives Geneva for collections management and acquisition of material is currently based on the UN Secretary-General’s report: "Modernization and integrated management of United Nations libraries: new strategic directions" (https://undocs.org/A/AC.198/2005/4).
Management of the United…
Library & Archives Partnerships
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PERMANENT MISSIONS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
In accordance with its mandate as instrument of international understanding, the Library & Archives Geneva partners with Permanent Missions and International Organizations to set up a variety of cultural activities and events to promote UN objectives, multilateralism and…
Ariana Park
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History
The Palais stands just behind the Ariana Museum, in the 46-hectare Ariana Park, one of the biggest and most prestigious parks in Geneva, with an outstanding view of Lake Geneva and the Mont Blanc beyond. The City of Geneva made the park available initially to the League of Nations, and then…
CPAG
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The Common Procurement Activities Group (CPAG) is a voluntary interagency procurement network composed of Geneva-based UN entities and international organizations. The aim of the Group is to build more effective, coherent and better-performing procurement practices and to lower cost of commonly required goods and services for all its members.
In 2021, CPAG has reported total estimated cost efficiencies of more than USD $17…
Administration
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In addition to administrative functions for our own entity, UN Geneva’s Division of Administration supports more than 30 other UN entities principally based in Geneva, Bonn and Turin, and some 90 field offices worldwide.
Our services to them comprise human resource management, financial resource management, ‘central support’ (facilities, purchase and operational support) and information and communications…
Permanent Missions
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Permanent missions were established in the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which recognized that such practices contribute to the development of friendly relations among nations, irrespective of their differing constitutional and social systems. The United Nations is comprised of 193 Member States, of which 181 permanent missions of Member States are accredited to United Nations Office at Geneva…
