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Where did the UN have its HQ before the building was constructed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.83.107.213 ( talk) 01:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
We need more info! Does anyone have a map or know a whole lot about the interior of the building?
Imagine a person that wants to get to the UN headquarters (to hold a speech or something else). To get there the person would have to be on US territory first (for example on the way JFK airport - UN headquarters), thus he or she could be prosecuted by US law.
Is there a way to come to the UN HQs without going through national ground first? I.e. is there a helicopter landing place or something else that would allow someone to come from his or her country and go directly to the HQs via international ways? Thanks, -- Abdull 10:28, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The whole coming and going thing is irrelevant. Accredited diplomats and heads of state have diplomatic immunity, and the US respects that even if it's at war. This is why guys like Castro, Chavez, and Ahmadinejad can come and go to the UN as they please. This is also why Iraqi diplomats at the UN continued to give press conferences during Desert Storm in 1991 without a peep of US objection. Sure, US customs & immigration can refuse to admit diplomats but that can only be done in accordance with the terms of the US/UN host country agreement which has the force of federal (treaty) law. Wl219 06:41, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
-- Supersexyspacemonkey ( talk) 00:37, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
The article has a lot of wrong information regarding diplomatic immunity. UN staff members do not have diplomatic immunity. For starters, there are more Americans working at the UN than any other nationality, and you cannot have diplomatic immunity in your own home country. Foreign UN staff have a G-4 visa (International organization officer or employee, and members of immediate family), which not only doesn't grant any immunity, but its also very restrictive. The only people working at the UN itself with diplomatic immunity are political appointees such as heads of major organizations (UNICEF, UNESCO, UNDP) and chiefs of the handful of existing major independent programmes, all of which are temporary positions, and none of them are UN staff. In the case of the Oil-for-food programme fiasco, only one person involved - Alexander Yakovlevhad - had to have his diplomatic immunity revoked in order to be prosecuted.
The case regarding the parking tickets back in the mid-90s was not related to UN employees, although it was reported as such by the media at the time. The people who were involved were those working for local consulates and their countries' missions to the UN. They are not UN employees, and do not work at the UN, although a lot of these missions and consulates are located within the same neighbrohood. Foreign representatives of their countries' governments are the ones with diplomatic plates on their vehicles.
And for the record, I've been working at the UN for nearly 20 years, have a G-4 visa, no longer own a car but when I did it had NYS plates, had two speeding tickets and five parking ones and had to pay every one of them, recently had to pay a $150 dollar ticketd for crossing a red light on my bicycle, and have been arrested for disorderly conduct (a fight broke out at a bar where I was having a drink, and as I forced mine and my date's way out of there, the police came in and arrested anyone who looked like they'd been in a fight).
This article needs material on the architecture and architects of the Headquarters buildings.
I read in National Geographic's September 1961 special UN edition that one of the alternatives for UN HQ is a travelling cruise ship moving regularly among member states. The article just stated it as a passing remark and I don't have other clues for the source/reference. Could somebody with a background on this matter verify this?
Does anybody have any information about buildings, parks etc. that was removed in order to build the UN building? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.232.24.10 ( talk) 13:54, 4 April 2007 (UTC).
Hi. Someone nominated this article for GA (I don't see the GA template here but trust this is so). A great subject but needs more work to pass GA. Here are some notes that I hope will help (feel free to use or not if I missed something). - Susanlesch 23:44, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
What exactly does it mean when one says that the United Nations is "international territory"? What does it mean to the visitor? When someone breaks a law, whose law is he or she breaking, and how does he or she get punished, and who does the punishing? If the US is at war with a country and that country's diplomats happens to be at UN headquarters, what happens? How does the status of the UN headquarters compare with that of Vatican City from a legal and practical point of view, as far as relations with the surrounding country are concerned, and with countries in general? 204.52.215.107 05:37, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
i just would like to know how many countries inculding in United Nation? Because many countries has been gets a freedom for their are country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.19.65.24 ( talk) 03:28, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
This is a premature nomination. This article is not yet deserving of good article status. It lacks much about the history of complex, including cost of construction, beginning and completion dates, etc. In addition, no mention is made of the major organizations that use the building: Security Council, ECOSOC, Secretariat, etc. Article lacks in image use. The images previously used were not very informative, when there is a sizable collection of images at Commons. In addition, sources are not formatted into citations, and some are even just links inserted directly into the prose of the article (a couple of these ended up being dead links). In addition some of the article is excessively detailed while much of it is not detailed enough. I haven't actually completed reading the full article yet, but it's really unnecessary. This one just isn't yet up to snuff. I just added an infobox, which cleaned the place up. I will also be adding more images into the article as well (might have to search a bit on Flickr as well). I will be working on this article now in the future, and hopefully can help out a bit. ~ ωαdεstεr16 «talk stalk» 03:41, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Shouldn't this nomination be closed out? This is showing up as the oldest unreviewed article. So I was going to volunteer to review it. However, apparently the article has been reviewed, but this fact has not been properly documented. Please properly close out the review or document that the review is ongoing as appropriate. Granted, I have not checked the history to see the improvements made since the nomination, but in its current state, I would have placed the nomination on hold, not failed it. While I agree with most of the findings, some of these are over and above the Good article criteria. Dave ( talk) 05:10, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Though I know normally the first editor to begin a review should be the one to pass/fail/hold, since this nomination has been "in review" since March 2009 without action, I'm going to mark this FAIL and suggest that it be renominated by an interested contributor at a future time. Vicenarian ( talk) 04:44, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
In the J.P. Morgan corporate site (www.jpmorgan.com/pages/jpmorgan/about/history) it is mentioned that "1947: The firm gives $8.5 million to the United Nations to purchase the 17-acre property for its headquarters" In the Wikipedia article is says that the money/land was a Rockefeller donation. Which one is true? Ovelix ( talk) 18:54, 9 March 2010 (UTC)Ovelikios
The secong external link is broken 83.60.183.191 ( talk) 14:58, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
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This article was nominated GA in 2009, see Talk:United Nations Headquarters/GA1, but failed. Main reason was a lack of historical info, beginning and completion dates, organizations using it, etc. All that information has been added later.
The text and design now look good to me at first glance, but a few dead external links need to be fixed. One link to ABC News (Ref 31) has been dead since 2007...
-- Shenhemu ( talk) 12:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
I think most of TIAYN's concerns have been solved with the latest quality improvements by Racepacket. I don't think the article should be much bigger, since this is only about the headquarter, not about the UN itself. Still, I suggest to add some more cross-refences to other major UN articles, where possible. Be waiting with final GA listing. Shenhemu ( talk) 03:30, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
Good article now! Thanks to Racepacket and all other contributors! Shenhemu ( talk) 07:17, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
"Due to the significance of the organisation, proposals and offers to relocate the Headquarters buildings would suffice now and then. " Suffice pro surfice? 128.214.182.172 ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:33, 2 February 2011 (UTC).
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I am not an expert on this subject in any way, but the Corbusier and Niemeyer section seems to have a bit of a Niemeyer bias. It doesnt mention Corbusier's contributions, nor that of anyone else involved. Djacobs7 ( talk) 07:15, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
According to the City of New York's NYCityMap system the United Nations headquarters and property is owned not by the United Nations but by the City of New York's Department of Citywide Administrative Services, I would like to change this information to reflect the correct up-to-data info but I am afraid that it might spark a editing war which I'd like to avoid at all costs. Unfortunately the way the NYCCityMap system is setup there is no way to directly link to the data and requests have to be manually entered each time. So I'd like to know how this should be handled properly. TheGoofyGolfer ( talk) 06:28, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
The reason is because the UN Headquarters District Agreement Annex 1 specifically enabled the UN to widen their territories to the Bureau of Manhattan, City of New York, and State of New York.... and they did.
So the UN Headquarters District is actually expanded to Manhattan... Which is why it's so weird with money. the UN HQD also expanded to the entirety of New York City.
The fact that the CITY OF NEW YORK owns the UN headquarters district plot of land is evidence of the UN widening their territories as per the treaty annex 1. the Government of New York City is inclusive of the UN Government. (Paris Peace Treaty - Article 45 calls the UN a government and not an NGO).
The CITY OF NEW YORK issues their own Birth Certificates separate from the State of New York, and even Title 20 C.F.R. §422.103 (2) specifically indicates that New York City is NOT part of the 50 states just as DC is not part of the 50 States, and likewise Puerto Rico, Guam, and Virgin Islands.
But also according to New York City Universities, anyone with a State of New York birth certificate is not considered "a resident of the State of New York" until they have a certificate, yet people with CITY OF NEW YORK birth certificates are considered de facto "State of New York Residents", yet without a State Birth Certificate!!
How can someone be considered a State of New York Born resident without a State of New York Birth Certificate? So. There is something REALLY REALLY REALLY funny with "The Headquarters of the United Nations"... and it is not being addressed in this article.
Furthermore, there are 4 supplemental headquarters district agreements between the US and UN that cover all kinds of things that really should be documented on the article page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:2350:71A0:516A:E4CF:C375:9C4B ( talk) 18:11, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
The "International character" section currently contains "In 2005, Secretary-General Kofi Annan waived the immunity of Benon Sevan, Aleksandr Yakovlev, and Vladimir Kuznetsov in relation to the Oil-for-Food Programme.[22] All have been charged in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, except for Kofi Annan's own son, who was also implicated in the scandal." I have removed the last phrase "except"... for various reasons. First, its wrong from the point of view of language. Annan's son is not part of the enumeration above, hence not part of the "all" referenced, and hence the "except" makes not sense. Secondly, it does nothing to illustrate the international character of the HQ, nor is it particularly connected with the UN HQ at all. It's probably fine in Oil for Food, or maybe in Kofi Annan, but here it's entirely gratuitous. And thirdly, the given source is much more circumspect than our "implicated", which is very vague and suggestive , without providing any substance. Please don't restore it without good reasons. If you restore it anyways, at least fix the language problems. -- Stephan Schulz ( talk) 06:47, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
We really do not need 3 images of the General Assembly hall, so I removed one. Epic Genius ( talk) 00:37, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
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