We would like to place on record a special thanks and appreciation to the staff and management team of UN Office at Geneva.
They are fast, super fast to respond to our enquiries although we are not located in their region of coverage.
In the same breath, we would most humbly request other UN Offices at many other location to update their email records regularly and respond to urgent NGO enquiries. We are deeply grieved by the lack of responses by many other UNO in most other locations. We forgive them for their lackadaisical approaches to NGO enquiries.
We are much obliged to repeat our thanks to the UNO Geneva for going the extra mile in customer service excellence, professionalism and superior work ethics, both in our planned digital peace journals and blog site.
We thank the DG of UNO at Geneva and the most enterprising staff there for jobs done to perfection. Your good deeds shall not go unnoticed.
In appreciation,
Steve S. Varatharajan
Deputy Secretary General & Publisher
IAEWP ( NGO ECOSOC UN )
IAEWP is the Recipient of the 1987 Peace Messenger of the UN Award
Email : iaewp.org @ gmail.com
They are fast, super fast to respond to our enquiries although we are not located in their region of coverage.
In the same breath, we would most humbly request other UN Offices at many other location to update their email records regularly and respond to urgent NGO enquiries. We are deeply grieved by the lack of responses by many other UNO in most other locations. We forgive them for their lackadaisical approaches to NGO enquiries.
We are much obliged to repeat our thanks to the UNO Geneva for going the extra mile in customer service excellence, professionalism and superior work ethics, both in our planned digital peace journals and blog site.
We thank the DG of UNO at Geneva and the most enterprising staff there for jobs done to perfection. Your good deeds shall not go unnoticed.
In appreciation,
Steve S. Varatharajan
Deputy Secretary General & Publisher
IAEWP ( NGO ECOSOC UN )
IAEWP is the Recipient of the 1987 Peace Messenger of the UN Award
Email : iaewp.org @ gmail.com
The Director-General
Biography
Michael Møller is the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Mr. Møller has over 35 years of experience as an international civil servant in the United Nations.
He began his career in 1979 with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and worked with UNHCR in different capacities in New York, Iran, Mexico, Haiti and Geneva.
Between 1997 and 2001 he was the Head of the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs at United Nations headquarters; between 2001 and 2006 he was the Director for Political, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary-General, while serving concurrently as Deputy Chief of Staff for the last two years of that period.
Mr. Møller also served as the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Cyprus from 2006 to 2008 and was the Executive Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation from 2008 to 2011.
Born in 1952 in Copenhagen, Mr. Møller completed a Master’s course in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.
Mandate
The Director-General is responsible for all activities of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG). He is appointed by and accountable to the Secretary-General. As the Secretary-General’s representative, the Director-General undertakes special political assignments and representation as requested by theSecretary-General. He represents the Secretary-General in relations with permanent missions and observer offices based in Geneva and deals with the Swiss authorities in matters relating to the relevant privileges and immunities of staff of the United Nations system in Switzerland.
The Director-General also represents the Secretary-General in relations with regional organizations and arrangements. He maintains cooperation with the specialized agencies and programmes based in Switzerland and Europe as well as with other intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and established institutions, including research and academic institutions headquartered in Europe.
The Director-General also serves as Secretary-General of the Conference on Disarmament and is the United Nations Secretary-General’s personal representative to the Conference on Disarmament. In this capacity, he provides the Secretary-General with advice and support on the work of the Conference on Disarmament.
