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Article #209: The Neutral Space - UNO City

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The UN city reveal the way Vienna Vienna. Michael Häupl in his address
perceives itself as a platform for pointed out that the city's international
international meetings at the heart of a and cosmopolitan character was largely
united Europe. A long-standing tradition due to the existence of UN City. As a
by the way, as much of the world's young man he had been proud to learn that
history has been and continues to be Vienna had been awarded such an important
made-up here. Three different cultures landmark role and to this day he was
intersect here whose idiosyncrasies have proud to see how many UN institutions the
created a distinct atmosphere at the city was hosting. Cooperation with the UN
centre of Europe to which numerous summit was good he stressed and he hoped that
meetings and international congresses international staff at the UN City felt
held in Vienna since the mid 20th century at home in Vienna.
bear vivid testimony. The VIC which has been designed by
The Vienna International Center, also Austrian architect Johann Staber, was
known as the UN City, is one of the four built between 1973 and 1979 just north of
official locations of the United Nations, the river Danube. In it six Y-shaped
in addition to New York, Geneva and office towers surround a cylindrical
Nairobi. Multilingual guides from conference building for a total floor
different countries inform you about the area of 230,000 square meters. The
work of the United Nations and the many highest tower stands 120 meters tall,
tasks of the organizations located here. having 28 floors. About 5,000 people work
The creation of the UN City in the at the VIC, which also offers catering,
mid-1970s made Vienna the third seat of banking, postal and shopping facilities.
the United Nations after New York and Larger conferences can be accommodated in
Zurich. Popular wisdom held that this was the neighboring Austria Center Vienna a
an important part of Austria's defense conference and exhibition centre with a
strategy during the Cold War: though capacity of 6000.The VIC is an
Austria was officially neutral, it was extraterritorial area.
believed that Warsaw Pact troops would be Complementing the ongoing Asbestos
less likely to invade a city with a large removal works in the VIC, a new
international population. conference building to be opened in 2008,
To commemorate the "25 years Vienna is being constructed near the southern
International Centre" has staged an perimeter of the campus.
exhibition in the arcades of the Vienna Drug Control and Crime Prevention are
City Hall which grants a general idea of part of this as well as the peaceful
the VICs origins and day-to-day business utilization of space and aid for
while providing information on resident refugees. Special organizations deal with
organizations and Austria's role within industrial development, the peaceful use
the United Nations. The exhibition was of atomic energy and the embargo on
inaugurated on by Michael Häupl, the nuclear testing.
mayor of Vienna, and Antonio Costa, Anil Gupta recommends that you visit
director general of the United Nations in vienna hotels for more information.






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