Sit of the United Nations

The seat of the United Nations is located at New York, at the edge of the East River, in the district of Turtle Bay in the east of the Midtown (Manhattan). Its principal construction started in 1947 and was completed in 1952. It was inaugurated on January 9th 1951.

Role

The complex shelters five of the six principal bodies of UNO:

the General meeting;
the Secretariat, in charge of the good performance of UNO;
the Trusteeship Council, charged to supervise the territories placed under supervision;
the Economic and Social Council;
the Safety advice.

The last principal body, the the International Court of Justice, has its seat with $the Hague with the Netherlands.

The site of UNO profits from the diplomatic immunity, and is regarded as being an international territory; the diplomatic are thus not assujetis with the American law. However since the Years 1990, the town of New York engaged of measurements so that the diplomatic (out of the enclosure of UNO), respect the payments in force, in particular for the problems of parking pay or driving under influence of intoxication.

Structure

The ground, on which slaughter-houses were, was offered by the Philanthrope John Davison Rockefeller Junior and the design is the work of a team of eleven architects, among whom Wallace Harrison, Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier. The project was accepted in 1947 and work lasted until in 1952

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