Skip Navigation
UPDATED: 22 Jan 2010 GMT
  • Photo:AP Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Laureate

    "For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"






















     
  • Photo: State Department New U.S. Representative to the UN in Vienna

    Ambassador Glyn Davies serves as the new Permanent Representative of the United States to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations Office in Vienna.

  • The United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV). Credit: Associated Press The U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Vienna

    The Vienna International Center hosts UN Organizations such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and many more. The U.S. Mission works with them to improve international cooperation in nuclear technology, crime, terrorism, space and free trade.

     
Previous Pause Next
More News
State Dept. Image

Haiti: Cooperation Among Haiti, the United States, and the United Nations
Briefing by Esther Brimmer, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, at the Foreign Press Center, Washington, DC, January 19, 2010

Photo: AP

National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in January
Presidential Proclamation from January 4, 2010 - National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

Photo:AP

Export Controls Meeting in Vienna
The fifteenth Plenary meeting of the Wassenaar Arrangement was held in Vienna on 2 and 3 December 2009. The arrangement tries to regulate transfers of conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies to prevent that their misuse for the development of military capabilities.

Conference on the UN Convention against Corruption. AP Photo.

U.S. Anti-Corruption Implementation reviewed
The Pilot Review Program on Corruption was a temporary UNODC project which tested methods of reviewing implementation of the UN Convention Against Corruption. The U.S. was reviewed by Poland and Sweden. The report provides some useful information of how the U.S. is complying with several critical UNCAC articles.

Photo:AP

International Anti-Corruption Day
Curbing Corruption is a global challenge said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in a Video Message For the International Anti-Corruption Day on December 9, 2009.

More News From Washington