United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC)
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United Nations
Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) services Western Europe and provides
information and
documentation
to the countries of the region. Its information outreach
activities
extend to all segments of society and joint projects, events
and campaigns are
organized with key partners, including governments, the media,
NGOs,
educational institutions and local authorities.
UNRIC also disseminates information materials, major UN
reports and
documents, press kits, posters, fact sheets and brochures.
A Reference Library, open to the public, maintains a
collection of UN
documents and publications in English, French and Spanish, as
well as
information materials available in other West European
languages. UNRIC
regularly responds to all inquiries by telephone, e-mail and
postal
mail.
A common UNRIC website is operational in 13 languages of the
region:
Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Icelandic,
Italian,
Nederlands (Dutch/Flemish), Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and
Swedish.
Each language site gives information about the most important
current
UN-related events, activities and observances, as well as
UNRIC and
UN family programmes in the region.
The sites in non-official UN languages (all except English,
French and
Spanish that have links to the UN headquarters website) also
present
basic information on the UN organization, including its
structure, goals,
main documents, affiliated agencies, employment opportunities
and main
areas of work.
Countries
Served
United Nations Regional
Information Centre
(UNRIC) in Brussels provides information services to the
following Western
European countries: Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany,
Greece, the Holy See, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,
Malta, Monaco,
the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden
and United
Kingdom.
UNRIC also provides liaison with institutions of the European
Union
in the field of information.